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huygens

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Registered: 2007-11-06

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Get wine to load Diablo II even when NOT root

Hi guys (and maybe there are some nice girls, too )

I installed wine from the repos and my Diablo 2 + LOD Expansion and everything was fine.
But then i wanted to start the game and got an "Please insert the Expansion-Disc".
After some doublechecking of winecfg and so on I just tried to start the game as root AND it worked...

I think it might be a problem of groups/rights or might it be something else?

Here my /etc/group: http://pastebin.archlinux.org/18127

greetings
huygens

kensai

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From: Puerto Rico

Registered: 2005-06-03

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Re: Get wine to load Diablo II even when NOT root

Did you by any chance ran winecfg as root? or installed the game as root?

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huygens

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Registered: 2007-11-06

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Re: Get wine to load Diablo II even when NOT root

No i didn't.
Thats most often no good idea...

kensai

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Re: Get wine to load Diablo II even when NOT root

Yeah, I know, Thats *always* not a good idea.
Well the only thing that I can suggest is adding yourself to the disk group, login logout, and try again.

Note: I'm not that good in this area, I'm just trying to help a bit.

Last edited by kensai (2007-11-08 19:07:15)

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huygens

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Registered: 2007-11-06

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Re: Get wine to load Diablo II even when NOT root

Now i joined the groups "disk" and "hal" with no result.
Still same Problem. I also installed Warcraft 3 TFT and there is the same s***
thx kensai

Gilneas

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2006-10-22

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Re: Get wine to load Diablo II even when NOT root

I tried out Diablo II once, I don't remember exactly how I installed it, but I think I used a fixed exe.
You may want to try that. Though the wine database recommends against it (link), so decide for yourself.

Megagames has a few.

Misfit138

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Registered: 2006-11-27

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Re: Get wine to load Diablo II even when NOT root

I wrote a guide to installing Diablo 2 a while ago and they 'published' it in the PCLinuxOS magazine. It's in pdf format, though.
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:cM … =firefox-a

Last edited by Misfit138 (2007-11-08 20:25:35)

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Misanthrope

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Registered: 2007-10-05

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Re: Get wine to load Diablo II even when NOT root

What I did is patch to the latest official patch, then use a fixed exe. Without the cd in it would keep complaining about the cd but with the play cd in ( or the LoD cd with the expansion ) it opens and runs fine.

huygens

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Registered: 2007-11-06

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Re: Get wine to load Diablo II even when NOT root

Now I managed it to get both games running fine.
But as soon as I was able to start, the next Problem appeared:
There is no inet-connection available in wine. My linux-connection is alright.
I have no proxy (except of tor and privoxy) and its seems to be wine not connecting correctly.
Even starting as root does NOT solve this Problem... *baaad*

To tell you the solution of my former problem:
There were some mistakes in the syntax of my /etc/group and so my user had not the required permissions (e.g. reading the cd...).
A simple correction made it work!