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Linux - Wine & Half-life

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Anyone got this working?
I am using debian, everything is up to date, used the latest release of wine..

as far as I can get in half-life is it loads, and I enter the cdkey in before it says "You need to put your desktop into 16bit color"

Tried changing it to 16bit color (from the previous 24) still nothing

Any idea's? I read the half-life linux howto but it doesn't seam to have anything on that problem.
 


<< Anyone got this working?
I am using debian, everything is up to date, used the latest release of wine..

as far as I can get in half-life is it loads, and I enter the cdkey in before it says &quot;You need to put your desktop into 16bit color&quot;

Tried changing it to 16bit color (from the previous 24) still nothing

Any idea's? I read the half-life linux howto but it doesn't seam to have anything on that problem. >>




Make sure you are starting X with --bpp 16.
 


<< Anyone got this working?
I am using debian, everything is up to date, used the latest release of wine..

as far as I can get in half-life is it loads, and I enter the cdkey in before it says &quot;You need to put your desktop into 16bit color&quot;

Tried changing it to 16bit color (from the previous 24) still nothing

Any idea's? I read the half-life linux howto but it doesn't seam to have anything on that problem. >>



Read these too:
http://lhl.linuxgames.com/howto/half-life-HOWTO-0.3-adam.html
http://lhl.linuxgames.com/howto/mcbride.txt


Remember, most X servers still start in 8bpp (256 colors) by default...


If you dont have X configured to start automatically you can type:

startx -- -bpp 16

to start up in 16 bits (16,000 colors).

If you have X configured to auto startup, you really need to change the configration for the X server that xdm starts... or you can just change your default runlevel from 5 to 3 in the /etc/inittab and restart so it does not auto start up the graphical login, and then try the above to see if it works.
 
Thx for the info,
I have tried starting it with 16 , 24 (default) and 32bit with no luck

not sure whats going on, read the halflife-wine howtos as well, maybe I should e-mail the author 😉

Thanks for the info though
 
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