From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 5 12:41:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 432B81065672 for ; Mon, 5 May 2008 12:41:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tijl@ulyssis.org) Received: from cavuit02.kulnet.kuleuven.be (cavuit02.kulnet.kuleuven.be [134.58.240.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF0758FC14 for ; Mon, 5 May 2008 12:41:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tijl@ulyssis.org) Received: from smtps01.kuleuven.be (smtpshost01.kulnet.kuleuven.be [134.58.240.74]) by cavuit02.kulnet.kuleuven.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F07351C01B; Mon, 5 May 2008 14:41:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kalimero.kotnet.org (kalimero.kotnet.org [10.4.16.222]) by smtps01.kuleuven.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EB5C31E702; Mon, 5 May 2008 14:41:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kalimero.kotnet.org (kalimero.kotnet.org [127.0.0.1]) by kalimero.kotnet.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m45CfA1w012955; Mon, 5 May 2008 14:41:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from tijl@ulyssis.org) X-Kuleuven: This mail passed the K.U.Leuven mailcluster From: Tijl Coosemans To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 14:41:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <47ba7e1f.UDwudqHevRDrsQ8d%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <200805041509.12737.tijl@ulyssis.org> <481e507a.8XsVIuRvsw0nXEWh%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <481e507a.8XsVIuRvsw0nXEWh%perryh@pluto.rain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805051441.09849.tijl@ulyssis.org> X-KULeuven-Information: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven X-KULeuven-Scanned: Found to be clean X-Spam-Status: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-50, required 5, autolearn=disabled, KUL_SMTPS -50.00) X-KULeuven-Envelope-From: tijl@ulyssis.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wine: notepad OK, others not X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 12:41:20 -0000 On Monday 05 May 2008 02:10:34 perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: >>> ... very shortly after starting the actual install I got an error >>> box: >>> >>> >>> VISIO Setup >>> >>> ! Tried to create an invalid path using 'A:\' and 'clipart.vs_' >>> >>> >>> and it locked up the display so that CtrlAltF1 would not switch >>> to a text screen (although it did allow AltTab to bring up FVWM's >>> window list). After clicking OK: >>> >>> >>> Visio Setup >>> >>> i Setup failed. >>> >>> >>> and it quit. >> >> What version of Visio is this? > > 3.0. Long before M$ took it over, so it should be just a generic > Win32 app with no secret M$ tricks. Visio 3.0 was still 16bit apparently. What you could try is to set the Windows version in winecfg (bottom of applications tab) to Windows 95 or even Windows 3.1. >> Also, you should really take this to the wine-users@winehq.org >> mailing list. The people there should know more about this than >> here on a FreeBSD mailing list. > > I suppose I can try it, but I wonder how much interest there will > be on a wine list in supporting FreeBSD. At a minimum I suppose > they'll want to know if it still breaks on the latest wine version, > and I'll have no way to find out since the FreeBSD port doesn't > support the latest wine version. It's just that they know more about debugging such problems and figuring out if it's Wine or a FreeBSD problem. The latest version is in ports by the way, wine 0.9.61. > In any case, it seems FreeBSD should not be allowing a port -- any > port -- to lock out CtrlAltF1. Patches welcome...