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ezzetabi

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Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

Cedega problem, please help.

I installed cedega using the swiergot's aur package, I downloaded and installed cedega-engine-6.0.3-local-update.i386.cpkg just after.
Yet the program freezes very often...
The only interesting message I can read in the shell when I start is about a program called `dbus' that does not exist or it is not running.

Is it important? What is that?
Any help?

edit:
A little test, I just tried creating a game folder, the program freeze I had to ctrl-c until I had my shell back...

ezzetabi@pendulum cedega cedega
/usr/lib/transgaming_cedega/gddb.py:24: RuntimeWarning: Python C API version mismatch for module gddb_parser: This Python has API version 1013, module gddb_parser has version 1012.
  import gddb_parser
F1 2007-09-18 18:24:57,909 WARNING The Cedega version (6.0.3) you are defaulting to is missing the following file : /home/ezzetabi/.cedega/.winex_ver/winex-6.0.3/.transgaming/config
F1 2007-09-18 18:24:58,099 WARNING Optical drive detection: dbus is either not running or is not installed.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/transgaming_cedega/Point2Play_gui.py", line 1610, in add_game_folder_title_cb
    retval = self.Point2Play.winex( 1, new_title, "", None, self.Point2Play.gamedir + new_title + "/" + "games.ini.new", self.Point2Play.default_winex, OverrideGameProfile=install_profile)
  File "/usr/lib/transgaming_cedega/Point2Play.py", line 1500, in winex
    (p, v) = os.waitpid(pid, os.WNOHANG)
KeyboardInterrupt

Last edited by ezzetabi (2007-09-18 16:34:26)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,911

Re: Cedega problem, please help.

D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another.
Yes, it is important.

Things like automounting heavily rely on the dbus/hal combination.

pacman -Sy dbus hal will install both.

Put hal in daemons line in rc.conf (it will automagically start dbus) and reboot or do /etc/rc.d/hal restart

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ezzetabi

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Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

Re: Cedega problem, please help.

Yes, starting `hal' it works... Yet I was not thinking I have an ATI and so I can't play anything... :S
5 frames per second... cool...

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,911

Re: Cedega problem, please help.

Try the flgrx 8.41.7  from testing.
While it has bugs, IF it works on your card the performance will increase a lot (reports of 50-90% improvement are common).

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

(A works at time B)  && (time C > time B ) ≠  (A works at time C)

haukew

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From: Hamburg, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-25

Posts: 96

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Re: Cedega problem, please help.

Thanks, Lone_Wolf, your hal/dbus-tip helped me, too :-)

Last edited by haukew (2007-10-30 22:47:55)