Glad you have your burner working -- with great results all around! You might check over at CodeWeavers for info on using WINE with different applications:
http://www.codeweavers.com/technology/wine and http://appdb.codeweavers.com/appbrowse.php for app data base also: http://www.winehq.com and http://www.winehq.com/support.shtml for the latest WINE info. On Wednesday 31 October 2001 09:25, Justin Bengtson wrote: > thanks guys. my sister now has a new bjork cd. > > interestingly, the "hdd=ide-scsi" line was already in the menu.lst > file for GRUB. all i had to do was add a script to insmod the scsi > modules (modprobe and depmod rarely work for me, no matter what > distro...) > > we might have a new convert or two. stacy likes how "snappy" my > computer is now. i think i'll wean her on mandrake one of these > days... when i feel more confident and less whiny about linux... my > other sister's boyfriend saw the desktop last night, realized that > quake 3 was available for linux, and pretty much just snatched the > redhat cd's from my hand... i'm waiting in agony for the questions > tonight. > > on a personal note, it was very liberating to burn a cd while playing > tux racer while listening to mp3's while having my mail and a mozilla > window open. the most important thing, of course, was that the music > didn't have to stop. i wouldn't have even dared try that in windoze, > even with 2K... and tux racer only skipped when the burner was > changing tracks, and it _barely_ skipped at all. > > my next trick is to get Thief to work under wine. if they can get > Half-Life to work... has anybody had any personal experience with > wine? (don't worry, i printed out the manual...) from what i read > the other day, it looks like you need some kind of config file for > each application, and you simply install the software just like using > windoze. > > if thief works, on to lightwave. then i can forget i ever had > windoze installed. :)
