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
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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.
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