WinAuth and Wine on Ubuntu 14.04

Didn't see much information on WinAuth working via wine so I was surprised to find out how simple it was to get it working in Ubuntu using PlayOnLinux (4.2.2)

These is my setup:

Set up a new drive by clicking configure.

Select New.

Select 32 bits Windows installation.

I'm using the Wine 1.7.15 (32bits).

Call it "Winauth".

Once the step is done, go back to the configuration window and click on "Install Component", select dotnet40 and install.

Once done, open a terminal and copy your Winauth.exe and if you have winauth.xml from your windows directory, copy that too:


$ cp WinAuth.exe  ~/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Winauth/drive_c
$ cp winauth.xml ~/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Winauth/drive_c



Go back to the configuration window, making sure that Winauth drive is selected, click "Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive".

Click Browse.

You'll be able to find Winauth.exe in the window that shows up. Click Open and once done, exit the configuration window. You should have a shortcut on the desktop as well..

Here it is :)

PlayOnLinux and Diablo 3 ROS: Get pass that "Retrieving Hero List" bug!

PlayOnLinux is a welcomed tool to make Wine configuration fairly painless. The default D3 installation option works, however playing the game with the default options won't work. The game is rendered very slowly and has choppy audio and gets stuck on "Retrieving Hero List"

This is how I fixed it( Ubuntu 14.04 and fglrx drivers):

Highlight "Diablo III", Click on "Configure" on PlayOnLinux toolbar and add "-opengl" in Arguments.

The frame rate should be a lot better now but you will be stuck at "Retrieving Hero List..."

On Ubuntu desktop, selected the Diablo III shortcut placed by PlayOnLinux and edit it to include "setarch i386 -3 " prefix in Command textbox:

The game should work  smoothly now.

Steam, Linux and Segmentation fault

My steam deb installation on Kubuntu 14.04 failed while it was trying to start. When I ran the program from the control panel , it showed that it crashed out with a segmentation fault.

Turns out that the issue was attributed to the proprietary drivers I was using(  in this case AMD's fglrx). Setting the drivers to the  Xorg's drivers and re-run steam worked.

Gigabyte H87 D3H : Not stable or bootable sometimes, but fixed

I got a Gigabyte H87-D3H and a Haswell processor. What adventures I had with it.

Symptoms: With the old PC10600 16gb RAM The box just won't boot sometimes, or would start displaying pixel corruption in the BIOS screen, or hang randomly.

When you get a board fresh from the store together with a new CPU, you would expect the board to boot up just nice right? Apparently not in this case:

The box booted without display. LCD monitor just went to sleep upon finding no signal.

The tedious troubleshooting proceeded, swapping out card to run the native HD4400 display, and disconnecting hard drive and RAM.

The configuration that finally worked for me was when I had one or two sticks of RAM in the board(I had 4X4GB sticks). System ran stable for 2 weeks.

I had some time today since it is a public holiday, so I swapped  2X8Gb cosair kit ram from the Win8 box...and the box booted without display. Only one stick at any slot will work. Great.

Started poking around the BIOS to see if there's any RAM settings that wasn't out of the box when I noticed that the BIOS was 2 revisions and the new one  "Support New 4^th Generation Intel Core Processors"

Patched it and now it seems to be perfectly happy to take the all RAM sticks. Hello Xubuntu( and all the Wine games).

Troubleshooting PCs are only fun when all you have is time.

Disable autocompletion of braces, strings and parentheses in Eclipse

Autocompletion of braces and quotes may be productivity gain for  lots of people, that's why Eclipse has that settings on by default right? I found that this feature is breaks my coding flow.. and thankfully there is a way to turn it off easily.

Access Preferences (Alt+,/Eclipse->Preferences in OSX or Window->Preferences in others
Type braces into the text search and disable in Java->Editor->Typing or Javascript->Editor->Typing depending on what source code you're working on.

Uncheck the items under "Automatically close"

 

Eclipse cannot start

I have a couple of projects in Eclipse that I was importing and deleting. I'm not sure if that caused the symptom to appear when I relaunched Eclipse. Had an error messsage that reads "An error had occured. Please see the log file". The fix? Navigate via command line and issue "eclipse -clean", then relaunch.

Rift, PlayOnMac - Update

Just a little update to the previous post on Rift + Wine(http://workinginavirtualspace.blogspot.sg/2014/05/rift-and-wine.html)

 .. Rift won't work unless Wine is set up to emulate a virtual desktop.

Enjoy patch 2.7!

SailsJS, Passport and Social Auth

There is Git ready to go example of Sails + Passport JS social authentication for Github, Google+, Facebook and Twitter. I've successfully set up Facebook auth and I suppose the rest will work just as well.

A point to note for Facebook call backs when you see this:

"Given URL is not allowed by the Application configuration.: One or more of the given URLs is not allowed by the App's settings. It must match the Website URL or Canvas URL, or the domain must be a subdomain of one of the App's domains."

On Facebook's dev app page where you created the app, go to Settings->Advanced, enter the callback URL  and save.

https://github.com/stefanbuck/sails-social-auth-example/tree/sails_0.10

Fatal Signal 11 , LibGDX 1.0 and GenyMotion

I was encountering the issue on simple libgdx programs crashing out on GenyMotion vm with similar messages like


"Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV) at 0x97281008 (code=2), thread 2496 (Thread-183)"


which seems to be caused by any drawing calls... isolated each call and still had the same issue. Program will just crash out with signal 11 after a while.

Turns out the quick fix is to have vmSafeMode in AndroidManifest.xml.

    <application

        android:allowBackup="true"

        android:vmSafeMode="True"

        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"

        android:label="@string/app_name"

        android:theme="@style/GdxTheme" >

How to develop with Titanium SDK and Genymotion in OSX

I was puzzled why Titanium SDK wouldn't detect a Genymotion VM even though I've done a ADB connect and "adb devices" can list the device. That is how I debug my android setup in Windows( it's slightly different as the IDE is on a separate network - will cover in the upcoming post).


Turns out that for Mac, if you're running Titanium SDK and GenyMotion all on the same machine, you need to launch a terminal and issue

ti config genymotion.enabled true

Refresh the devices and you will find Genymotion vms listed in the Android Emulator group.

Strange... it's listed differently from my Windows setup (appears as a device).

OSX Rift and WINE

Rift doesn't have a native client on OSX. Oh well.


I didn't get very far with WineSkin so I thought I'll try PlayOnMac instead. I was using PlayOnLinux when I was using Ubuntu previously.


Install PlayOnMac 4.2.2 (http://www.playonmac.com/en/download.html)

Using PlayOnMac , pull the latest wine binary for POL.(Tools->Manage Wine Versions)

Installed VCRun2005, VCRun2008 and d3dx9

Set the display settings to

GLSL Support : Enabled

Direct Draw Render: OpenGL

Offscreen Rendering Mode: FBO

Strict Draw Ordering: Enabled

I had no luck launching the installer found on the site( it worked in WineSkin hours before however).


I used this patcher instead..

http://update2.triongames.com/patcher/public/Rift_LIVE_Patcher_setup.exe


The installer will run and exit, run it again to patch the patcher(you may encounter a few more crashes but it should work in the end)


The final shortcut installed should be the main launcher for the client.

Java development and OSX

During my app development on OSX, the somewhat strange Java situation surfaced with some of the products.

Titanium SDK needs Java 6 to start, Java 1.7 won't do or the IDE will throw an error message. This means the Apple 1.6 version is needed, if you have Oracle JDK installed, you will need to download Java 6 from Apple's site:

Java for OS X 2013-005

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?viewlocale=en_US


IntelliJ runs on  Java 1.6, however LibGDX requires Java 7. Importing Gradle project will fail with a RoboVM error. Fortunately there is a way to force IntelliJ to use Java 7 runtime.

http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2014/04/03/Troubleshooting-IntelliJLibGDXRoboVMGradle-issues-on-Mac-OS.aspx