Showing posts with label spotify. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spotify. Show all posts

2009-09-05

Fixing graphical glitches using Spotify&Wine in Fedora 11

To reduce dual-booting to windows to a minimum, I recently setup Spotify under Wine in Fedora 11 (64-bit).
Initially, the audio went silent shortly after starting the application - this was fixed by changing the sound driver in winecfg to ALSA instead of PulseAudio.
A second problem was graphical glitches:

Googling found a nice blog post about what was missing:
yum install cups-libs.i586 fontconfig.i586 gnutls.i586 hal-libs.i586 libXcomposite.i586 libpng.i586 sane-backends-libs.i586 libXcursor.i586 libXinerama.i586 libXrandr.i586 libXrender.i586
After installing the above packages the graphical glitches disappeared and victory was declared: