[Wine] Problem with a program called winbox

[Butch Evans]

On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 21:14 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
> On 5/10/11 12:29 PM, Butch Evans wrote:
> > This winbox application is one that I use to manage routers for myself
> > and my customers, so it is unlikely that there are many others trying to
> > use it.  I have used this program (through several versions of the
> > program itself) on my Fedora laptop from FC8 all the way to Fedora 14.
> > I don't know what wine versions that spans, but it's over 5 years and it
> > has worked flawlessly.  When I first tried to run that application on my
> > old laptop, I had some problems in the terminal portion of the
> > application (see pictures).  After some reading, I discovered the MS
> > Core fonts needed to be installed.  I installed (on my old laptop) the
> > msttcorefonts package and the winbox app has worked ever since with
> > absolutely no problems.  My old laptop is currently running wine 1.3.12.
> >
> What version of Wine is your 'new' laptop running and is it possible to 
> 'downgrade' it to Wine 1.3.12?

I've already tried this.  Currently running 1.3.18 (again).

> 
> Also, what kind of and model of video card and what drivers are you 
> using on the old laptop and the new?

This is my suspicion now.

> This may be a video driver issue.  AMD/ATI video cards are known to have 
> less the high quality drivers, lntel drivers are the worst an nVidia are 
> the best for Linux and Wine.

I tried to install the nvidia drivers, but could not find the proper
driver. 

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3920
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 45
	Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
	Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at 5050 [size=8]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
	Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
	Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915

When I looked at Lenovo's support site, their documentation claimed the
display was nvidia 6800GT.  After some further reading, I'm beginning to
suspect the display or video card drivers, too.  I'm not certain what my
next step should be, but I plan to persue the nvidia driver upgrade
first (since that is likely to be the easiest).  I'd be happy to get
your insight on which I should try to upgrade?  Are they even the same
thing?

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