Wine & Seti

[cakin]

How do you start seti under wine?

I downloaded the Wine-rpm. I am trying to use Redhat which is really confusing to me.

I have it on a tyan dual and I have installed the smp kernel

Thanks...Carl

 

[PeterN]

Just look out the aliens don't get drunk. :beer:

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: PeterN
Just look out the aliens don't get drunk. :beer:

You mean by drinking too much :wine: ? 🙂

Can't help on the Linux there, cakin, but I see you're advancing nicely up the TeAm ranking.

 

[CyGoR]

But what is your question? How to install Wine or get seti running on your RH system?
If you have wine already installed, you really should use the standard windows CLI seti client..

 

[cakin]

I have wine installed I think? At least it appeared to run OK from the RPM. The only thing that bothered me was the RPM tool asked for the root priveleges to run it. I am trying to work thru the configuration document but there is a lot of stuff I dont have. I cant find the documentation and ./tools directories so I havent been able to copy over config files

I used http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-20030408-1rh8winehq.athlon.rpm?download

I also placed a windows copy of seti on seti on a floppy, mounted it and copied it into /home/dad/seti1

How do I start wine in a window so I can enter my user name the first time for seti?

 

[HayHauler]

Yea, I would like to know also, Cakin. I have a dual PIII 933 machine,
running RedHat8.0. I have heard that the Win CLI running under Wine
on a Linux box is the fastest Cruncher!

😎

 

[Crazee]

Now where is Poof when we need her?

/me puts my communicator helmet on "Calling Poof, Calling Poof, Wine and Seti emergency!" 😉

 

[JWMiddleton]

Originally posted by: Crazee

Now where is Poof when we need her?

/me puts my communicator helmet on "Calling Poof, Calling Poof, Wine and Seti emergency!" 😉

I was about to suggest contacting Poof as she use to run SETI under Wine. She said it ran faster under Wine than the native Linux version. 😕

 

[sciencewhiz]

Yep, poof is the wine and seti expert.

In the meantime, to test if wine is installed ok, type "wine -v"
you can also try to run solitaire (which a lot of people suggest to see if wine is working) "wine path/to/sol.exe"
if winesetup is installed, you should run that because the default config file almost always needs to be modified. "man wine.conf"

hopefully some or all of the above is helpful.

 

[HayHauler]

Sciencewhiz, do I just type "wine -v" from the command prompt, or from a command prompt inside X-Windows?
does the "wine -v" start the Wine interface?

P.S. Why somedays we have Quick Reply at the bottom, and somedays we don't? !
Ads still on the left, huh?

😎

 

[mgpaulus]

Well, I don't run seti, but I do run Folding@Home under wine.

I run the command line version, so I have my stuff configured to run at startup (using /etc/rc2.d/....), and I have it configured to
run as root.

Here's what I had to do....

(This is EXTREMELY quick and dirty, and YMMV).

Once I got a good wine configuration for a user, I did an su to root. If root does not have a ~/.wine directory, I copied the working user's directory to
root. Then I did a
'chown -R root:root .wine' to make everything owned by root. That gives root access to wine.
Then, go into .wine, and edit config.
Change any lines that have a reference to the user to be /root

Change the line that identifies the driver from
"GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv" to
"GraphicsDriver" = "ttydrv" This allows you to run console apps w/o needing the X session.

Now you should be able to run your seti stuff.
nice -19 wine -- setiathome -proxy <yoursetiqueue: port>