[vox-tech] Wine and HW access?

[Peter Jay Salzman]

begin Ryan <ryan@mother.com> 
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> On Tuesday 16 July 2002 11:56 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 16 July 2002 11:28 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > > > begin Ryan <ryan@mother.com>
> > > > > Anyway, can Wine intercept access to the printer port and support it
> > > > > as VMware does?
> > > >
> > > > wine boasts parallel port access too.  transgaming (winex) has it
> > > > turned off by default for some reason.  if you use winex,
> > > >you'll have to
> > > > download the cvs version and compile it yourself.  at least, that's
> > > > what was explained to me (i had posted a question of printer access
> > > > under winex).
> > >
> > > Arg.... But that will not have support for some of the copy protection
> > > and other closed source bits of WineX.....
> >
> > yeah, that's a good point.
> >
> > tell you what.  the guy who answered my question wasn't REALLY clear
> > about it.  maybe you can glean some info which i glossed over.
> >
> > i had posted a message about the "cd stomper pro".  i was able to design
> > CD jewel case covers and CD artwork, but i couldn't get it to print.  i
> > posted a message in one of the forums about it, and got one or two
> > responses.   it should still be there.  i don't remember what their
> > search utility is like, but hopefully they'll have something which will
> > allow you to find my post and peoples' responses.
> >
> >
> > let me know about your progress.  i'm interested.
> 
> http://www.transgaming.com/showthread.php?thread=3972
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> This isn't too helpful.

well, it's helpful if you understand it.  it just requires alot of
legwork and fiddling.

> Also; I need raw parallel port access, printer 
> support (it looks like wine uses CUPS/LPD, etc) isn't going to help me.
 
not to tell you the obvious, but...

1. have you tried googling for your answer?  i went to google groups and
   searched on "wine raw parallel port access" and saw a few threads
   which might be relevent to your situation.

2. have you tried to post a question to winehq's mailing list?

3. have you tried to get support from the winex forums?  you're
   entitled to free support from transgaming.

considering not many people here have played around with wine, the three
suggestions above seem to be more appropriate avenues of support for
"non-standard" wine questions.

pete

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