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Roger. That worked. Roger. That worked. Roger. Will do that stuff. For me this is about seeing whether this is fun enough to occasion the next hardware upgrade, tho i'm amazed at how much i've gotten out of less than $300 worth for five years. Coming from flights sims, I'm having a ball training on the Blackhawk. Dig it. Will do that. I just handed my 10 year-old nephew the guts of a 10 or 12 year old laptop that i ripped out and and mounted on a board with a plexiglass lid. I'm gonna set him up with slitaz or something on a memory stick and set him loose! He's been writing video games in Scratch so I thought I should evangelize him with linux. He'll probably blow my mind with what he figures out. Catch you around on here.

Praise Jesus! It (pretty much) works! I'm in awe of you guys who know all this shit off the top of your head. Now I just gotta figure out what the hell I'm supposed to be doing in Takistan. I am looking up another steep learning curve. Couple minor glitches: 1. What is that thing where when the mouse pointer goes off the side of the Wine window it stops working for the Wine app? 2. In Steam, my menus are "blanked out" now, the words don't appear, but I managed to remember where the games option was. Also, what is a good place to start with dialing down the video settings in ARMA to get less lag? I do like how a low framerate blurs instead of stutters, though. Very organic looking. re : PulseAudio : You can imagine that for me, I don't know the difference between a "drastic alteration" of the package and a tweak! I know what I know, and I don't know what I don't know, you know? Parenthetically, I have to say the thing I love about Linux is that I feel free to just type anything into the terminal that some dude on the internet suggested in a forum, because if I mess up the OS I don't really give a toss. I'll have it re-install in an hour, in contrast with Windows where you really lose, and it takes forever and a pint of blood to reinstall. Maybe just now with getting this game installed am I reaching a point where I'm "invested" in my setup. Thanks I will check that out. I think it says a lot that guys like me are even using Ubuntu -- I have a lot of other stuff going on in life and not a lot of time to invest in learning it, but it basically works for me and it's always satisfying to triumph over your adversities when things go tits up. Can't thank you enough for all the help bro.

Okay, check, followed your instructions, but I get the same problem I had run into earlier, where it loads up the Main Menu, and clicking on the buttons does nothing, and that's where it stands. As you guessed, I had installed Linux Steam and found that it wouldn't give me ARMA, so I installed Steam under Wine. Now running Steam through the terminal, I get this (sorry if I'm not offsetting it correctly): Running Steam on ubuntu 12.04 32-bit STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client) Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client) unlinked 0 orphaned pipes GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications. Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client) [0318/204918:WARNING:proxy_service.cc(646)] PAC support disabled because there is no system implementation Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client) Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client) Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client) PulseAudio connect failed (used only for Mic Volume Control) with error: Access denied Process 5363 created /szegedin-ValveIPCSharedObjects3 Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client) Generating new string page texture 2: 48x256, total string texture memory is 49.15 KB Generating new string page texture 3: 256x256, total string texture memory is 311.30 KB Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client) Generating new string page texture 14: 384x256, total string texture memory is 704.51 KB Generating new string page texture 15: 64x256, total string texture memory is 770.05 KB Generating new string page texture 16: 128x256, total string texture memory is 901.12 KB AL lib: pulseaudio.c:612: Context did not connect: Access denied Does this mean anything to you? PulseAudio getting me messed up? I thought I already removed it... Should note that when I check my settings in Steam it says Windows XP and Wine 1.4 ??

you're right, my bad. I copied over the ARMA installation folder from C: under wine to my desktop (which I had downloaded from Steam) because when I went to point it to the install file folder, .wine is hidden so I can't point to it. This is my noob workaround, and may be part of the problem. WHen the installation runs, the game starts running and when I quit from the game, the installation process disappears with no error message, and the game does not show up in the list. So should I be running Steam from the terminal, or the ARMA installer....?

I see this is an old thread but it was really useful to me so I figured no harm in a bump... I am following Kindling's instructions to install the ARMA2/OA demo using playonlinux. When I get to the point of selecting the ARMA install file to run, amazingly it works in the sense that the game runs. I can play or at least initially check it out. The game starts itself in the installation process. However, the instillation process does not complete, and when I exit the game, it is not installed. What am I doing wrong? Any help greatly appreciated. I'm at a noob-to-intermediate level with linux. I'm running ubuntu 12.04; follwed the instruction to use wine 1.5.13 on the install. Computer is something like core 2 duo 2.0ghz /3gig ddr2 / radeon gt610. Anything else to figure it out I can provide. Anyone have any ideas?