Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 14:41:07 +0200 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wine: notepad OK, others not Message-ID: <200805051441.09849.tijl@ulyssis.org> In-Reply-To: <481e507a.8XsVIuRvsw0nXEWh%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <47ba7e1f.UDwudqHevRDrsQ8d%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <200805041509.12737.tijl@ulyssis.org> <481e507a.8XsVIuRvsw0nXEWh%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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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...
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