From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Apr 30 8:38: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl [131.155.56.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 903CA37B41C for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 08:38:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from karelj@localhost) by wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3UFbQN95386; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:37:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from karelj) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:37:26 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" To: "D. Michael McFarland" Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Codeweavers's crossover Office on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020430173726.B95329@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> References: <20020425120106.54076.qmail@cobweb.example.org> <20020426142108.A79302@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> <20020427010031.A83162@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> <86y9f6xv92.fsf@haggis.aae.uiuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <86y9f6xv92.fsf@haggis.aae.uiuc.edu>; from dmmcf@uiuc.edu on Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:36:09PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:36:09PM -0500, D. Michael McFarland wrote: > I spent part of my weekend playing with CrossOver Office, and thought > I should report my results here for the archives. And maybe somebody > will wallop me with a clue about Wine. > > I had limited success with linux_base-6, but once I upgraded to > linux_base-7 I was able to install CrossOver as a normal user and then > MS Office 2000 Pro. My experience generally resembles that of > "Karel J. Bosschaart" , who wrote: > > >> Interesting, I couldn't resist and tried. It seems to be installed now, > >> although I'm getting a bunch of > >> linux: 'ioctl' fd=6, cmd=0x7201 ('r',1) not implemented > > I'm seeing those too. > > > No luck. Although I finally managed to install MS Office '97, trying > > to run Office programs mostly results in > > > > linux: syscall ptrace is obsoleted or not implemented (pid=2865) > > I haven't seen that, though. > I'm running linux_base 6, maybe that makes the difference? I'll give it a try with linux_base 7 on 4.5. > > and wine quits. > > I can start any of Word, PowerPoint or Exel, but on top of the > application window I get a transient window complaining, "Required > registry information is missing and this application cannot run. > Please rerun setup to correct this problem." When I click on OK (the > only choice...grrrr), the transient closes, and the application closes > right behind it, apparently cleanly. > Hm, I didn't see that... Meanwhile, I got the thing more or less running on 5.0-DP1, although the complaints about unimplemented ioctl's are still there. On a first look, Word and PowerPoint seem to run fine when I tried with some test .doc and .pps lying around. It's quite amazing to see those apps run without the sluggish emulation feeling of VMware :-). Karel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message