From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Apr 29 10:36:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from haggis.aae.uiuc.edu (haggis.aae.uiuc.edu [128.174.132.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D54037B405 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 10:36:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dmmcf@localhost) by haggis.aae.uiuc.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3THa9401019; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:36:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dmmcf@uiuc.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: haggis.aae.uiuc.edu: dmmcf set sender to dmmcf@uiuc.edu using -f To: "Karel J. Bosschaart" Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Codeweavers's crossover Office on FreeBSD? References: <20020425120106.54076.qmail@cobweb.example.org> <20020426142108.A79302@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> <20020427010031.A83162@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> From: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:36:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20020427010031.A83162@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> ("Karel J. Bosschaart"'s message of "Sat, 27 Apr 2002 01:00:31 +0200") Message-ID: <86y9f6xv92.fsf@haggis.aae.uiuc.edu> Lines: 51 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1 (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I spent part of my weekend playing with CrossOver Office, and thought I should report my results here for the archives. And maybe somebody will wallop me with a clue about Wine. I had limited success with linux_base-6, but once I upgraded to linux_base-7 I was able to install CrossOver as a normal user and then MS Office 2000 Pro. My experience generally resembles that of "Karel J. Bosschaart" , who wrote: >> Interesting, I couldn't resist and tried. It seems to be installed now, >> although I'm getting a bunch of >> linux: 'ioctl' fd=6, cmd=0x7201 ('r',1) not implemented I'm seeing those too. > No luck. Although I finally managed to install MS Office '97, trying > to run Office programs mostly results in > > linux: syscall ptrace is obsoleted or not implemented (pid=2865) I haven't seen that, though. > and wine quits. I can start any of Word, PowerPoint or Exel, but on top of the application window I get a transient window complaining, "Required registry information is missing and this application cannot run. Please rerun setup to correct this problem." When I click on OK (the only choice...grrrr), the transient closes, and the application closes right behind it, apparently cleanly. Now, I'm darned impressed it gets that far, but it's not really _useful_. That is, it doesn't let me laugh in the teeth of Word and PowerPoint in the presence of my colleagues; the best I can manage is a rueful chuckle under my breath, and they don't pay any attention to that behavior any more. Seriously, I suspect this may be a wine configuration problem, but I don't know much at all about wine. I can find some more time to spend on this if someone will tell me there's hope, but for now I've run out of steam and patience. Good luck to anyone else taking a stab at this. Cheers, Michael -- D. Michael McFarland Visiting Senior Research Scientist & Visiting Lecturer Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message