Post by: worldwhore3 on January 10, 2011, 05:12:00 PM
xbox wine is *dead*. the xbox-linux project is dead in terms of continual development. there are plenty of dabblers, but noone behind the wheel really making headway in development. there is no roadmap for the future, there is no collaboration of developers, there are only those of us here and there who like to play around with it.
if a linux project dies, then all work put into that project dies as well. look at the root of xdsl, which is dsl. it hasn't been looked at in years. it still works great, but there is no development, what we have is what we get.
now, back to wine. wine isn't a useful option on a real computer, let alone computing on the standard issue xbox (64mb ram, low video capability, low processor speed). at ubuntuforums i try to teach people about the limitations of wine, and i feel i should here as well. if you want to play windows games or run windows apps, you'tr usually going to need a windows box.
Post by: worldwhore3 on January 24, 2011, 09:40:00 PM
i don't even understand what you are trying to accomplish. you haven't named an application you want to run or anything.
no matter what you want to do, if you really want to run *any* MS application, you may as well run a windows box. what you get is what you get. xdsl will be able to print, wordprocess, run a stripped version of firefox with *no* flash (and if you do get it it's not worth running on a standard issue xbox [64mb ram, standard cpu]), limited javascript, no IM'ing if you want to do that, although you will be able to use various web based messengers, you *might* be able to burn to DVD/CD if you install a burner (i have a burner installed but have yet to try burning); it's enough to get you by while you're loungin' on the couch on the cheap.
xwine is dead, so you have super-limited options of what you want to run on it, regardless of the issues installing it may or may not have given you.
further - if you do not understand why you cannot write to disk, you need to learn how linus users are structured and you should also inform people of what you are trying to save to your drive. if you are trying to download something from firefox, you *may* have to run FF as root. if you don't know what "root" is, think of root as "administrator".
linux gives fewer permissions by default to users other than root.
start telling us what you're trying to do instead of running multiple sentences together about problems you're having, because it's a ll a jumbled, hard-to-make-sense-of mess.
and by the way, you are not off the hook with this one:
what do you know was achieved in terms of "great things"?
i want to know what you think you know.
Post by: cheema201 on January 27, 2011, 09:27:00 AM
http://distro.ibibli...amnsmall/mydsl/
Look in the 'system' link at the distro and its in there. I have no idea why you would need xwine.
Try that out and see how you go.
Post by: hcf on January 27, 2011, 11:25:00 AM
Please cheema, could you tell me which path is your E: drive mounted to? As far as I have read, it uses to be mounted on "/mnt/hda50" but in my case that directory does not exist, and E: is mounted at boot time on "/cdrom" with read-only privileges
And, do you have a Frugal installation of XDSL?
Big thanks again!!
Post by: cheema201 on January 28, 2011, 08:41:00 PM
I did a loopback install... I have limited knowledge now of the procedure but I remember having some issues also. There is a txt file or something that is created with your loopback install that tells it which drive to mount automatically (If i remember correctly) I think by default it is the E drive. So I used to test games and apps through that before even mounting the F drive.
So do a loopback install (remembering that you have to allow a bigger cache for memory depending on what you plan to run) Make it at least 1gb to be safe I think.
If your really having issues I'll dig up my old keyboard and mouse and run xdsl.
Post by: hcf on February 01, 2011, 06:48:00 AM
I will make a couple ot tests more, and if I cannot achieve any good result, I will go for the loopback install.
Thank you very much again!!
Post by: cheema201 on February 01, 2011, 10:24:00 AM
wen you open linux it comes up with a menu.
I had more than one loopback install that I used to use for different things and give them different names. Mainly for memory issues..
So there should be no issues doing the loopback install.. I remember how shitty I was trying to play around with that frugal crap. It got me nowhere. After I did a loopback I was magically able to do plenty. But there is not scene at all for linux on the xbox
It is a real shame, because some games run through linux that do not run anywhere else. Shit red alert 2 was apparently running through it! Though I never got it to work.
Look at xmugen, all done through linux.
If someone worked on a linux 'emulator' (obviously not an emulator at all) but I mean a linux exclusive gui on the xbox that had all the games that run through xdsl, easily navigated with an xbox controller. Then that would be something pretty special..
XDSL can run epsxe the playstation emulator! and a 3DO emulator to a modest standard..
It runs star ocean and valkyrie profile through epsxe and ff7 better than pcsxbox!
XDSL should have a following, but it doesn't... That is why I stopped using it when I ran into some difficulties. There is nowhere to turn to haha.
Good luck getting your stuff up and running
Post by: hcf on February 02, 2011, 06:39:00 AM
I will try to install a loopback Linux and I will tell you!!
