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Date:      Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:58:43 +0100 (BST)
From:      Developer <dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Linux Willows?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.93.960807115807.20486A-100000@fgate.flevel.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199608061627.JAA13485@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > Ive just tried to run the linux version of the willows windows emulator
> > (xwin) and run into an error:-
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> > FatalAppExit: DPMI failure
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> > Has anyone any idea why this might be?
> 
> DOS Protected Mode Interface failure.  It means that the VM86() call
> failed in the Linux emulator.  This is probably understandable, since
> it has never been implemented.  The patches for the BSD version of a
> DPMI for the BSD version of Willows is available as part of the BSD
> Willows distribution.  You will have to use that instead.

I just found some more information, in /var/log/messages I have:-

Linux-emul(18075): modify_ldt() not supported

Seems like the linux ldt`s doesn`t work - is this easy to fix?

Regards,

Trefor S.





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