From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 7 03:54:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA04056 for current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 03:54:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fgate.flevel.co.uk (root@fgate.flevel.co.uk [194.6.101.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA04051 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 03:54:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dev@localhost) by fgate.flevel.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA20489; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:58:44 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:58:43 +0100 (BST) From: Developer To: Terry Lambert cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux Willows? In-Reply-To: <199608061627.JAA13485@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.