[ALUG] Why is it so hard? (Making Ubuntu Work)

Hi Matt,

I think I'm in the same boat as you on this (apart from that I don't have server experience prior to desktop)

I started my ubuntu adventures with gutsy, and was able to run GuildWars off my XP partition with no problems.

The game was quite laggy, and some textures were missing, but it was playable.

I'm not quite sure about GW, but for world of warcraft there are lots of guides out there that detail how to set it up under wine. I had to copy some windows DLLs over to the wine folder, and had to run the exe with the /opengl parameter to get things working.

I havent tried guildwars/WoW under the latest ubuntu release, and I think i was on wine .59 at the time so perhaps its better lately ;)

have you tried the commercial wine alternative? I forget the name of it..

If you find any solutions I'd be interested to know

Regards

Ok, I've been using Debian on my server for years and Knoppmyth (Debian
based) on my media centre for slightly longer.

But I've not really done much on the desktop. Since I do a fair amount of
gaming, I've stuck with windows for my desktop.

Recently though I've only been playing one game a lot (Guildwars) which is
supposed to work fine under wine. Also I play GW with friends and we use
skype. Which has a linux client, so I thought I'd give it a go...

I downloaded and installed the 64-bit version of ubuntu, setup the ATI
graphics card, setup the medibuntu repository and apt-getted skype and wine.

So now I have 3 problems.

1. Now they're using something new in Ubuntu called Pulse Audio, which puts
another layer between your devices and your applications, and apparently
it's why I can't get my microphone working in skype.

So, I've been working through everything on the Ubuntu forums (it appears
I'm not the only one) documented by someone else here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1006163

But nope, none of that works...

2. I'm trying to setup my screens to work at their native resolution.
I've got one that runs at 1680x1050 and another at 1280x1024.

I managed to get them to run correctly, but the settings don't stick.

It boots with both screens set at 1280x1024.

To get them to work I do the following steps through the ATi Catalyst
Control Centre:
1. Disable the second screen (1280x1024)
2. Reboot
3. Set the first screen to its correct resolution (1680x1050) which wasn't
available before the reboot.
4. add the second screen in.
Then it works, until I reboot.

The third problem is that Guildwars doesn't want to run under Wine. I've not
yet looked into this in great detail yet, as I've usually given up by this
point and booted back into windows.

Matt

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