[gentoo-user] Gentoo in the workplace
Hi there, This is possibly already answered elsewhere, however I've trolled through google to no avail. I've upgraded my work machine from a Windows 2000 machine to Gentoo (running on a Dell GX520) with VMware running XP, Vista, 2000. Most things run fine, but unfortunately I've had a few problems with things such as Active X pages (i.e. Cisco Call Manager, Infra, etc). I've tried using wine (version 0.9.29) and installing IE however I couldn't find the full installer and we use a proxy here (the installer craps out when trying to set it up within the installer) So I installed ieslinux and tried that - it seems to work and lets me load some pages however they don't all load correctly... infect the majority don't... So I unmasked wine with the x86 keyword and tried both options again with the same results for the first option and ieslinux getting to the same place and stopping (but with text visibility bugs) and so I've now reverted back to wine 0.9.29 and am officially stuck. Firefox doesn't seem to support Active X at all, however there was a plugin for v1.5 which I tried and didn't have any luck with. I've heard you can copy across a entire system32 folder and get wine working better, is this true? I'm a member of transgaming (Cedega) is this worth trying? (Internet Explorer wasn't listen in their database) There are other bugs and issues I'm trying to nut out (like a virtual OS X install, i support Macs unfortunately as part of my role), but at the moment getting ActiveX going is the most critical (as I'm using my old machine or virtuals to do allot of my work) Any thoughts/comments/miracles/donuts or donations would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Jason Sartorelli -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo in the workplace
Thanks Ken, So what do other people do when they need to use ActiveX? Is there any work arounds etc? Hmmm, its interesting as before now (as I use server, desktop and laptop builds) I couldn't see what was stopping businesses using Linux on their desktops but as there are about 5 internal sites (such as our Helpdesk tool, Cisco Call Manager) which are needed on a daily basis I guess the 'little' things are pretty large obstacles. I guess hopefully in the future such tools will be obsolete as people code for Firefox and IE (without Active X) Cheers, Jason -Original Message- From: Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 14 June 2007 3:01 p.m. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo in the workplace -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sartorelli, Jason wrote: Hi there, This is possibly already answered elsewhere, however I've trolled through google to no avail. I've upgraded my work machine from a Windows 2000 machine to Gentoo (running on a Dell GX520) with VMware running XP, Vista, 2000. Most things run fine, but unfortunately I've had a few problems with things such as Active X pages (i.e. Cisco Call Manager, Infra, etc). I've tried using wine (version 0.9.29) and installing IE however I couldn't find the full installer and we use a proxy here (the installer craps out when trying to set it up within the installer) So I installed ieslinux and tried that - it seems to work and lets me load some pages however they don't all load correctly... infect the majority don't... So I unmasked wine with the x86 keyword and tried both options again with the same results for the first option and ieslinux getting to the same place and stopping (but with text visibility bugs) and so I've now reverted back to wine 0.9.29 and am officially stuck. Firefox doesn't seem to support Active X at all, however there was a plugin for v1.5 which I tried and didn't have any luck with. I've heard you can copy across a entire system32 folder and get wine working better, is this true? I'm a member of transgaming (Cedega) is this worth trying? (Internet Explorer wasn't listen in their database) There are other bugs and issues I'm trying to nut out (like a virtual OS X install, i support Macs unfortunately as part of my role), but at the moment getting ActiveX going is the most critical (as I'm using my old machine or virtuals to do allot of my work) Any thoughts/comments/miracles/donuts or donations would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Jason Sartorelli IE will never work in wine. I don't believe the devs plan to support it either. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGcK9n0PM4px2/kjgRAgoUAKCBu0JbNQ4oYBLs+INNPoZB2vovmQCfeyFf TOgGKyRq5rxifF4TOPBzvYA= =acRY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo in the workplace
Thanks, yeah at the moment i'm simply using it through my Virtual XP machine... i've had a quick look at crossover puts me in the same boat and I (greatly) prefer XP. I appreciate the heads up though :) -Original Message- From: Hemmann, Volker Armin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 14 June 2007 4:29 p.m. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo in the workplace On Donnerstag, 14. Juni 2007, Sartorelli, Jason wrote: Thanks Ken, So what do other people do when they need to use ActiveX? Is there any work arounds etc? Hmmm, its interesting as before now (as I use server, desktop and laptop builds) I couldn't see what was stopping businesses using Linux on their desktops but as there are about 5 internal sites (such as our Helpdesk tool, Cisco Call Manager) which are needed on a daily basis I guess the 'little' things are pretty large obstacles. I guess hopefully in the future such tools will be obsolete as people code for Firefox and IE (without Active X) AFAIR some versions of IE work with crossover. You might check their hp. Also, some people just use the IE installed in their XP running on vmware ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
