Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 13:41:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG To: dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk (Developer) Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux Willows? Message-ID: <199608071141.NAA18814@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960807115807.20486A-100000@fgate.flevel.co.uk> from "Developer" at Aug 7, 96 11:58:43 am
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In reply to Developer who 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?
No.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199608071141.NAA18814>