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Well, it sounds like it is working then. I suggest you tweak the table a little. That is, turn of things like FANCY card pictures, and by all means, turn off card animation! It does play a lot faster with the card animation turned off.

I don't know what the differences are between each flavor of Linux and how well wine works in each. Ubuntu/wine does have a leaky stick tho, that I can say for certain. Maybe Kubuntu doesn't have the problem, it is a KDE based os rather than Gnome. Play BBO for a couple hours, then come and tell us if you had any problem. ;)

I am happy to report that I have BBO up and running! For what its worth, this is what I did: Switched from PCLinuxOS to Ubuntu 5.10 (no offense...just could NOT get PCLinuxOS to work....could not get past the news window) So I switched over to UBUNTU Putting symbol, verdana, & arial ttf's in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ installed mozcontrol.tgz and registered the mozctlx.dll I ran the BBO_INSTALL.EXE, edited bbover.in so LINUX_WINE=Y and BROWSER_TYPE=C My command line to start BBO is wine "C:\\Bridge Base Online\\NetBridgeVu.exe" Everything worked except I could not see the symbols (-c, -d, -h, -s) in chat or in the bidding window The answer was somehow permissions for the symbol folder in truetype directory, and the file symbol.ttf were not set to allow reading. I used sudo to change permissions allowing all to read them now. Then it all worked....for about an hour of playing, then my system started locking up and I barely got it to do a reboot. Now I'm here looking for a post that I hope will solve/prevent the memory leak that I believe is happening. Thanks to everyone's input to these forums....without them this newbie would be lost in biblical proportion. I think I need to change my command line to ' ulimit -m200000&& wine "C:\\Bridge Base Online\\NetBridgeVu.exe" ' and I am looking for confirmation, or a correction. and finally....my thanks to Gerardo for your previous help. Richard

I have tried ALL the variants of installation for BB that I have read. Downloaded BBO 4.7.5 Using PCLinuxOS wine 0.9.1-4 tex Have SYMBOL ttf installed and successfully registered mosctlx in the BBOVER.INI file I have WINE=Y Have tried BROWSER TYPE=A,E, and C Have atl.dll and msvcrt.dll in system32 dir. Tried the WINEDLLOVERRIDES for BROWSER and atl.dll have tried winecfg for wine to look like win98, 2000, and XP The results are always the same when I go to BBO I log in okay It downloads tables the welcome pop-up comes up and I close it the Lobby news pop-up comes up and I am fried! It says the Latest Brdge Base Online news is not responding and asks if I want to terminate. end of story. I am reading all the different advice and instructions on this site (and others) and have tried them all (I think) except something about LIN.SH I do not understand what this is referring to or what to do about it. Can this LIN.SH thing (lack of it) be giving me the Bridge Base errors I am getting? my shell window gives me the same output that TYlerE posted here on February 1, 2006 and DATAKID posted on APRIL 27, 2006 ie: yada yada yada..no classfactory created for CLSID stuff, and the MSVCRT pmode 0x0164 Ignored I am new to LINUX, am tired of the Windows empire, but I love to play BRIDGE and have spent two solid weeks trying to make BBO work with wine to no avail, I honestly am so frustrated with all the smoke and mirrors that don't work that I am about to crawl back to Bill Gates. I DON"T WANT TO ! How can I make BBO work without Bill G. ? I am a user not a programmer. Thank goodness I have some experience with iRMX ! I admire the work and support/advice/help that you folks put into this, but there are so many flavors of linux and apparently of wine (and what is winex?) that things do get a might bit confusing to me. I am open to anything.............. patches?........ VMWARE?..... whatever will work. So all I can say is Thanks in Advance, that, and: Please help me?

I have tried ALL the variants of installation for BB that I have read. Downloaded BBO 4.7.5 Using PCLinuxOS wine 0.9.1-4 tex Have SYMBOL ttf installed and successfully registered mosctlx in the BBOVER.INI file I have WINE=Y Have tried BROWSER TYPE=A,E, and C Have atl.dll and msvcrt.dll in system32 dir. Tried the WINEDLLOVERRIDES for BROWSER and atl.dll have tried winecfg for wine to look like win98, 2000, and XP The results are always the same when I go to BBO I log in okay It downloads tables the welcome pop-up comes up and I close it the Lobby news pop-up comes up and I am fried! It says the Latest Brdge Base Online news is not responding and asks if I want to terminate. end of story. I am reading all the different advice and instructions on this site (and others) and have tried them all (I think) except something about LIN.SH I do not understand what this is referring to or what to do about it. Can this LIN.SH thing (lack of it) be giving me the Bridge Base errors I am getting? my shell window gives me the same output that TYlerE posted here on February 1, 2006 and DATAKID posted on APRIL 27, 2006 ie: yada yada yada..no classfactory created for CLSID stuff, and the MSVCRT pmode 0x0164 Ignored I am new to LINUX, am tired of the Windows empire, but I love to play BRIDGE and have spent two solid weeks trying to make BBO work with wine to no avail, I honestly am so frustrated with all the smoke and mirrors that don't work that I am about to crawl back to Bill Gates. I DON"T WANT TO ! How can I make BBO work without Bill G. ? I am a user not a programmer. Thank goodness I have some experience with iRMX ! I admire the work and support/advice/help that you folks put into this, but there are so many flavors of linux and apparently of wine (and what is winex?) that things do get a might bit confusing to me. I am open to anything.............. patches?........ VMWARE?..... whatever will work. So all I can say is Thanks in Advance, that, and: Please help me?

I am a Newbie to LINUX My goal is to get BBO to run under Wine and I am getting confused. I added SYMBOL font to my /usr/fonts/ttf folder I think I need to install and register the mozctlx.dll ?? I will edit the BBOver.ini file, but what TYPE do I need E ? C ? Do I need to install anything else into wine directory? Someone mentioned that you need Internet Explorer...is this true now? Any other comment/suggestion would be very helpful. I am using PClinuxos, and just downloaded/installed wine. TIA