From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 7 04:43:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA07259 for current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 04:43:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ra.dkuug.dk (ra.dkuug.dk [193.88.44.193]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA07239 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 04:43:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ra.dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA18814; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 13:41:34 +0200 Message-Id: <199608071141.NAA18814@ra.dkuug.dk> Subject: Re: Linux Willows? To: dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk (Developer) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 13:41:33 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Developer" at Aug 7, 96 11:58:43 am From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.