DirectX for Wine using Jaunty

[apape06]

Just want to preface this with saying this is my first time using any Linux distro, and I love this OS. So much faster than Vista and I'm excited about learning more about this OS.

However, I'm having an issue installing DirectX for Wine. I looked all over the internet for help, and while there's tutorials on how to download using earlier versions of Ubuntu, they don't seem to apply to Jaunty, because I've tried them and they haven't work. Is anybody else having this same issue with Jaunty or am I doing something wrong that I'm not aware of? Thanks in advance.

[b2bwild]

Wine have Direct X inbuilt.
but you can Install Direct X 9 for more compatibility.

The problem is, some native direct x dlls will crash the Wine. so you have to add library override to use the built-in dlls.

The safest way to install Direct X 9 on Wine is by using winetricks
Just follow these commands.

Install the Latest Wine.

sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/....d/jaunty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Update Apt

sudo apt-get update

Install Wine

sudo apt-get install wine

Get Winetricks

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

Install Winetricks

chmod +x winetricks

sudo mv winetricks /usr/local/bin

Now Install Direct X

winetricks directx9

Done.

[jmadero]

just wanted to welcome you to the forums, and give a (maybe uneeded) word of warning.

I am an experience Linux user and have been using Ubuntu for several years now (along with a few others) but Jaunty gave me MAJOR headaches. The newest release has really been a hit or miss with people, lots of people say they have had no issues while others...including myself...quickly had to downgrade because of the bugs.

So basically, if you start seeing any really annoying bugs (I had one that after using alt+tab I couldn't type), I'd suggest going to Intrepid

Hope you get as much as you can out of the community and the OS

[b2bwild]

Its quite true.
I have still using 8.04 LTS on one machine. X_X

[Rubberman]

I've been using Jaunty a bit now. I haven't experienced these problems, but then my use has been limited. I do like how well it handles all of my wireless cruft so seamlessly, including my Sprint Sierra USB modem and bluetooth adapter. It handled all of that without any configuration or setup required.

[Rubberman]

i was using Windows OS but now i am shifted to LINUX 3 days ago it is very hard

Hard, how? What distribution+version are your using? What do you want to do?

In any case, you should start a new thread, probably in the Linux Newbie forum.

[jmadero]

agreed to start a new thread, I don't think that hard is the right term....it's a bit difficult to get used to a different system (whether leaving Linux to Windows, Windows to Mac, Mac to Windows, etc...).

I think overall some distros (such as OpenSuse or the Buntu batch) are all quite easier than either mac or Windows. For 99% of things you want installed you don't have to go search for it it's as simple as

sudo apt-get install whatever program (with Ubuntu, OpenSuse is another easy command)

The repository system replaces going and finding the program manually online.

Start a new thread and I'm sure you'll get whatever help you need.

As for wine, what are you using it for? If it's for just windows software you probably can find free alternatives that in most cases are better than the Windows stuff you're trying to install. If it's for games on the other hand...then wine is probably the way to go

[apape06]

b2bwild - thank you for the help, helped somewhat. I ended up installing the development release (risky for a noob, I know) and it helped solve my problem. I was trying to run mlb2k9, which the most recent stable version wouldn't allow. Of course now I'm having trouble getting Oblivion or Final Fantasy 7 to work, but it's not a big deal anyways, I didn't switch to Ubuntu for the gaming. Still something I want to work to fix, so I can make Ubuntu as complete as possible for myself.

Brings me to another thing I'm having some trouble with. I can't properly install the driver needed for an XBox360 controller. Towards the end of the process, this happens:

anthony@anthony-desktop:~/xpad$ make
make modules -C /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic SUBDIRS=/home/anthony/xpad
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic'
CC [M] /home/anthony/xpad/xpad.o
/home/anthony/xpad/xpad.c: In function ‘xpad_open’:
/home/anthony/xpad/xpad.c:382: error: ‘struct input_dev’ has no member named ‘private’
/home/anthony/xpad/xpad.c: In function ‘xpad_close’:
/home/anthony/xpad/xpad.c:408: error: ‘struct input_dev’ has no member named ‘private’
/home/anthony/xpad/xpad.c: In function ‘xpad_probe’:
/home/anthony/xpad/xpad.c:496: error: ‘struct input_dev’ has no member named ‘cdev’
/home/anthony/xpad/xpad.c:497: error: ‘struct input_dev’ has no member named ‘private’
make[2]: *** [/home/anthony/xpad/xpad.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/anthony/xpad] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic'
make: *** [all] Error 2

What exactly is going on here?