Help starting MTA SA with WINE (Ubuntu 12.04)

[bhaveshnande]

Hello,

I am trying to run MTA SA (the latest one) with Wine 1.4 on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin.

Single Player GTA:SA works good and I could even completely install MTA SA. But it does not launch, when I try to launch it it shows a white window for a few seconds and then disappears. I tried everything stated on MTA wiki to fix MTA SA not starting.

Has anyone else tried this?

[Callum]

I had this same problem a month or so ago - I launched MTA and I just got a black screen with weird 4x4 (seemingly) blocks of pixels, that were white and blue. When I moved my cursor, they changed position. No idea what caused it, or what the solution is - I just formatted onto Windows.

[bhaveshnande]

That's bad, there has to be some solution.

[Jaysds1]

You could search for a solution: search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&keywords=Ubuntu

[12p]

This may help you a bit.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... ngId=69909

[bhaveshnande]

Jaysds1: You could search for a solution: search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&keywords=Ubuntu

Thank you for that, I have to enter a command every time I restart Ubuntu. But still it works

Thank you all, the reason behind MTA not starting with Ubuntu 12.04 was that in this version Ubuntu disabled the ability of one application to access another for security reasons which can be disabled by a root command.

echo 0|sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope

[Jaysds1]

np

[qaisjp]

you can create a shell script to do this:

save text file as: mta-setup.sh

  
echo 0|sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope 

[_Vincent_]

That's weird but 1.4 was very buggy for me too.

Install Wine 1.5.7 from the official ppa

ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa 

  
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa 
apt-get update 
apt-get install wine1.5 
  

p.s. oh, they patched 1.4 also