Wine what is fixme

There are many unofficial howtos for various apps posted on blogs and forums. They are rarely maintained by their authors, and because of Wine's rapid rate of development, even ones that were correct at the time they were posted can quickly become outdated. Applying tweaks that are no longer needed in current Wine can actually prevent an app that now runs fine without tweaks from working at all Office is a prime example.

The only howtos supported here are the ones on this site. If you insist on following an outside one, ask its author for help. If in doubt, start again installing the app in a fresh wineprefix and ask for help on the user forum. Consult the support channels for whatever third party application you used. Links to some of these outside applications are provided as a convenience on the Third Party Applications page, but they are not supported here. This is called a regression.

Please perform a regression test to identify which patch caused it, then file a bug report and add the "regression" keyword: we'll pay special attention to it, since regressions are a lot easier to fix when caught early. Briefly, you can improve Wine yourself, convince someone else to do it for you, or try some complicated hacks involving native Windows DLLs rather than Wine's unfinished ones. This is a bad idea. See the Developer FAQ.

See 3D Driver Issues for more information. Actually, Wine is sometimes faster. The speed of an application depends on a lot of factors: the available hardware and their drivers, the quality of the code in the APIs the application uses, and the quality of the code in the underlying operating system. Driver code matters a lot. If you're running a graphics-heavy application using a video card with very poor drivers such as an ATI card under Linux, performance will degrade substantially.

On the other hand, Linux has superior memory management, and comes out ahead of Windows in many CPU-related tasks. Sometimes, bugs in Wine can make applications excessively slow. That said, Wine works on correctness first, performance second. Ignore them.

Generally speaking, a fixme message will not make much sense to someone unfamiliar with Wine development. They are for Wine developers.

Also, it's important to understand that fixme messages often do not indicate a serious problem. Many applications will work fine even though Wine prints a few fixme messages. That said, they can still sometimes provide insight into how a particular application works or doesn't work.

If there are a very large number of these messages scrolling repeatedly, you can sometimes speed Wine up a little by turning them off altogether. For example, your command line could look something like:. More advanced users and programmers interested in debugging Wine should see Debug Channels and the Developers wiki pages. Here's an example to selectively turn off fixme messages from dsound and part of D3D only:. You can then copy the log from the screen and paste it into a file if it's short; otherwise redirect the output of wine to a file using a Unix shell redirection , e.

Important : Unless you have been asked specifically to provide a debug trace then do not do so. Simply follow the instructions above. Important : If you get a crash dialog while doing this, please click Close. Otherwise your log will be incomplete.

Important : If the resulting text file doesn't have names of C source files in it, your copy of wine probably lacks debugging symbols. Please either build wine from source, or install the debug symbols package. Note : Please only use this procedure when instructed.

In most cases a regular terminal output is enough see above. To retrieve a trace, run:. If the resulting file is larger than 1 MB, compress it with bzip2 or rzip before attaching. Please mention that in the bug report. For a list of debug channels that are available in Wine, see Debug Channels. If you ran the program from a terminal window by typing wine program. If you ran the application some other way, such as from a launcher shortcut, then you can open up a terminal and forcibly kill the process:.

You can also open up a Wine version of the Windows task manager by running wine taskmgr in a terminal. This will allow you to kill individual Wine processes.

If you are getting a complete deadlock and are unable to even use your mouse after running Wine, it's probably not a specific problem with the Wine software.

Wine is a user-level process, and shouldn't be able to completely hang the operating system under any circumstances. Instead, Wine is likely exposing a deeper problem with the system, such as a defective hardware driver, a bad memory stick, or overclocking flakiness.

It's often a graphics driver problem, in which case non-Wine apps might also be affected. If running glxgears also crashes, it's definitely a graphics driver problem. The most common cause is upgrading to a new kernel without also updating the graphics drivers to match.

Try reinstalling your graphics drivers. If the computer is a laptop and shutting itself off entirely, a likely cause is overheating. Some laptops have problems with cooling to begin with, and the Linux ACPI code controlling fans is known to be buggy. If that doesn't help, ask for help on the wine-users forum.

Maybe someone can help. You may have a messed-up. For instance, if you install an app that starts a service when the system boots, and that service crashes, you'll see a crash every time you start wine.

To work around this, try removing your. They sometimes forget to, and rely on you to already have the DLL or font installed. You can install the missing DLL or font in several ways:. Do not download DLLs or scripts from websites you do not know and trust! Fake or infected DLLs can cause you great pain, even on Wine. See the winetricks wiki page for more information on winetricks. Your operating system is probably living in the past, and has too low a hard limit on the number of open file descriptors.

Then log out and log in again, and do ulimit -H -n. It should show now, and Wine should have access to more file descriptors. Here's another method that's more portable might even work on Mac OS X , but only works temporarily, and only raises the limit for apps started from the current terminal window:.

This issue is being followed in bug The cause is a Linux kernel setting. Please record if you do this alteration, as the area Wine needs may change. See Preloader Page Zero Problem for more information. And running Wine as root is a bad idea. Fortunately newer versions of Linux allow granular permission control to grant only required permissions to specified files.

Note : This works with default binary Wine install only on most distros. The Bit name is winepreloader. You will need to rerun the command after updating Wine. Beginning with Wine 5. This is disabled by default because it carries a potential security risk, and the vast majority of applications do not need that capability.

This can be caused by filesystems mounted with user or noexec options, or by SELinux. Make sure the app in question isn't on a funny filesystem, or try disabling SELinux temporarily. RandR is a protocol used by applications to talk to the X server to change screen resolution, among other things.

This could present problems, particularly in software that attempts to change resolution or output to multiple monitors. See bug The open source Nouveau driver is not affected by this issue, and is the recommended solution for users who do not need the proprietary driver for any of their apps or games.

Users who require the proprietary driver should try the workaround described below. Many applications will attempt to start in lower resolutions if and only if they are available - but will happily use a higher resolution if that is the only option. In this case, you may be able to avoid a crash on nVidia drivers by forcing your X server to only support your monitor's native resolution and nothing else. This has proven to work for a range of games.

Upon restarting Xorg, you can test your changes using the xrandr command. There should not be any additional resolutions listed. You may now re-test your Windows application, hopefully with more success. Remember to comment out the line and restart Xorg when you are finished if you need other resolutions working for other software. There may also be a problem with Xrandr. The inability to switch from 24bpp mode to 8bpp mode is a limitation of X, not a bug in Wine.

See Color Mode for some possible workarounds. You can often work around this by changing the screen resolution and then changing it back again under the system preferences. We recommend that you disable them entirely before trying to use Wine. If you are using one and experiencing slow performance then please do not file bugs in Wine, as these are bugs in your window manager or your video drivers. This may be bug , caused by the nvidiaxx legacy driver, or bug , which affects QT 4. It could also be caused by missing fonts, font conflicts, or adding new fonts to Wine.

If you still have this problem, try setting the following in the Wine registry:. Place above in a text file called norender. Please apply only as required. This was reported as being required of OS X on the 1 Dec , and more recently on other platforms, such as Ubuntu. Sometimes you can use the Alt key and the mouse to move the winecfg window so you can reach the "Screen Resolution" slider on the Graphics tab; slide it down.

Changes will not effect the winecfg window until it's restarted. For MP3 sound to play out of the box in apps that use the WMP engine and codecs, you must have bit libmpg installed on your system and Wine must have been compiled with MP3 support. Copy l3codeca. Wine will then use the native codec to play MP3s.

Bad or no sound was a problem on some systems with Pulseaudio in older versions of Wine using the winealsa driver. If you are using a version of Wine older than 1. Some distro packages notably Debian formerly set this variable to work around the sound issue with the winealsa driver, but it is not needed with the winepulse driver and may prevent sound from working. Note: These instructions are for older Wine installs. If you're using Wine 1. If you're running Wine 1.

You need to make sure that your hostname resolves to the IP address of your network interface. To verify if you have this problem run hostname -i. If it returned IP address starting from " This will return your hostname the way your computer sees it.

Now, you need to open an editor with system administrator privileges, how you do this will depend on the distribution you are using. Assuming your hostname is "yourhost" and your network IP address is Many distributions don't provide all the bit compatibility libraries that wine needs.

In this case, wine needs bit DNS libraries. For other operating systems, the package name may differ. Consult your distribution's support channels. Try wine eject.

It is a function to free up, unlock, and eject the drive. Make sure that the drive is mapped as a CD-ROM in winecfg and specify the drive letter in the command line, e. Run mount once to see where the disc is mounted, then mount it again in the same place with the needed option and the "remount" option. Post by Stellenbosch » Mon Dec 31, am.

Post by dimesio » Mon Dec 31, pm. Post by Stellenbosch » Tue Jan 01, pm. Post by dimesio » Wed Jan 02, am. Post by Stellenbosch » Wed Jan 02, pm. Post by dimesio » Wed Jan 02, pm. Can a fixme be a problem?

I need it to get access to a tipping bucket measures rainfall via USB. The porgramm is called Tinytag Explorer. I got it installed but it just doesn't want to start. I managed to eradicate all error and fixme manages so far and now I'm left with only one: terminal output Code: Select all fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext 0x, 0x1f : stub. I guess I need to either install the 32 bit versions of these drivers, or configure MESA or some other system to look for the right drivers.

But I could not find anything online. Thank you Hector. This fixed my problem. Synthesia is finally running. This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply.

New replies are no longer allowed. Synthesia on Wine exits with "not supported on this system" error Ask in English. What directions from here?

You should find is your App has a good compatibility under it. See if the App have some workaround to work under it. Execute the Install Again.