[SOLVED] Wine can't initialize DirectX

Question

Whenever I start up a 3D game in Wine (other Wine programs work fine, ie Steam) I get errors like this in the console:
err:winediag:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Direct rendering is disabled, most likely your OpenGL drivers haven't been installed correctly
fixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub
err:d3d_caps:WineD3D_CreateFakeGLContext Can't find a suitable iPixelFormat.
err:d3d:InitAdapters Failed to get a gl context for default adapter
err:d3d:WineDirect3DCreate Direct3D8 is not available without opengl
err:d3d_caps:WineD3D_CreateFakeGLContext Can't find a suitable iPixelFormat.
err:d3d:InitAdapters Failed to get a gl context for default adapter
err:d3d:WineDirect3DCreate Direct3D8 is not available without opengl
Anyone else having this issue?  Any help would be appreciated!
Last edited by JMS (2009-12-17 16:14:00)

Answer 1

JMS wrote:Yeah, I realize the dangers of being an admin, I just thought there was a way to make pacman run without sudo.  Whatever, it's fine, I can deal with typing 4 extra letters if there isn't a "fix".
You can also use a bash alias.
As an example:
alias supac='sudo pacman'
You would place the above in the bashrc of your profile
gedit /home/YOURUSERNAME/.bashrc
Then to use it right away
source /home/YOURUSERNAME/.bashrc
Otherwise you can just logout then back in.
Then using the example you could just do
supac -Syy
supac -Syu
You just use supac in place of sudo pacman (the rest stays the same). You can use a different alias though. It doesnt have to be supac.
P.s. Glad the lib32-nvidia-utils fixed your issue. I had the same problem when i first started with arch so i assumed that was the issue.
Last edited by drama (2009-12-17 09:50:36)