Debian unstable and APT repository was: Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Scott Ritchie
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 04:54 +0200, KGJ wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm using debian unstable. Can I use the new APT repository? I'm sorry > to ask such a dumb question but I don't have any idea of Ubuntu and I > currently see only Ubuntu packages there. Else it would be nice to > have the debian

DIB to OpenGL? was Re: SOC: Integrate DIB Engine

2006-04-22 Thread Jesse Allen
Hey! On 4/19/06, Stefan Dösinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > For DirectX games, such as Age of Empires 2, I propably have an OpenGL-ish > solution for the problem. I haven't looked at it in detail, so no promises > that it is possible at all, but this was my idea: > > Basically, DirectDraw

possible bug in wine, programs/winecfg/appdefaults.c

2006-04-22 Thread Segin
While looking over this file, I came across something that just doesn't look right: { "win31", "Windows 3.1",2, 10, 0, VER_PLATFORM_WIN32s, "Win32s 1.3", 0, 0, ""}, (for those that don't pay attention to the winecfg code, the third value is the major version for the emulated versio

Re: MAPI32: class IProfAdmin, functions MAPIAdminProfiles & MAPIFindNext

2006-04-22 Thread Dimi Paun
On Sat, April 22, 2006 9:10 am, Konstantin Petrov said: > changelog: > mapi.h : added comments to structure MapiFileDesc > mapix.h : added declaration of the interface (class) IProfAdmin > mapi32_main.c : implemented the function MAPIFindNext with FIXME message > created ip

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread KGJ
Hello, Molle Bestefich wrote: Scott Ritchie wrote: This makes perfect sense to me: I _hate_ mailing lists, especially the kind that I have to subscribe to in order to post - it's far easier to run a search on a web forum (rather than googling the list archives), Can you

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Dimi Paun
On Sat, April 22, 2006 9:45 pm, Molle Bestefich said: > Can you explain what's so different between Google and a forum search? That's pretty obvious: the Google search is just a lot better. Remember when we used to offer our own search on WineHQ? It sucked so badly it wasn't even funny. I'm prett

Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Molle Bestefich
Sterling Christensen wrote: > Lots of forums support RSS, and you can "subscribe" to a topic > - two ways for forum posts to come to you. Those are definitely nice features. > There are lots of people who prefer forums. Everything seems so much > easier to me with a proper modern forum. There is

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Molle Bestefich
Scott Ritchie wrote: > This makes perfect sense to me: I _hate_ mailing lists, especially the > kind that I have to subscribe to in order to post - it's far easier to > run a search on a web forum (rather than googling the list archives), Can you explain what's so different between Google and a fo

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Scott Ritchie
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 13:17 -0500, Jeremy Newman wrote: > Currently the WineHQ server really does not have much space left over. > Alexandre and I have had a few issues with the box running out of hard > drive space. Well, you're in luck: we have all the disk space and bandwidth we need on the new

Re: [Wine] Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Sterling Christensen
Lots of forums support RSS, and you can "subscribe" to a topic - two ways for forum posts to come to you. There are lots of people who prefer forums. Everything seems so much easier to me with a proper modern forum. There is so much that's just impossible on a mailing list. Mailing lists are sear

Re: undefined reference to `GetCharABCWidthsI'

2006-04-22 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Jeff Latimer wrote: > Gerald, sorry about this. I notice that Alexandre has patched this as > there is a cunning #ifdef HAVE_FREETYPE in freetype.c that I did not > notice. Thanks for the info. Last night's automated builds now went fine again, both on FreeBSD 5.4 and SUSE

Re: [Wine] Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Sterling Christensen
For Wine, stickies would be useful for questions that keep getting asked very frequently. Asnwer it once then sticky it. That way others thinking of asking the same question will see the stick instead for weeks, months to come - until you decide there are too many stickies and unstick it. Forums g

Re: kernel: fix determination of using locale

2006-04-22 Thread Sergei Butakov
1)On Wednesday 19 April 2006 15:00, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > I'm not sure why you expect LC_CTYPE to set the user locale. LC_CTYPE > defines the locale used for character conversions, and that's what > Wine does by setting the system locale. The user locale affects things > like resource loading

Re: [Wine] Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Philippe A.
2006/4/22, Sterling Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: For Wine, stickies would be useful for questions that keep gettingasked very frequently. Asnwer it once then sticky it. That way othersthinking of asking the same question will see the stick instead forweeks, months to come - until you decide the

Re: [Wine] Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Philippe A.
>* ... What else?>How about the ability to post/read/respond to messages even when you're not at your own computer?  Many people on Yahoo Groups, for instance,don't even have a computer at home and access their groups from works orlibrary computers.  To my mind, this is probably the most important

Re: PROT_EXEC mmap/mprotect, i386 PAE + NX broken, x86-64 2.6.17-rc2

2006-04-22 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 22 April 2006 13:54, Marcus Meissner wrote: > > > > http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/wine/virtual.log > > > > > > Here is the culprit: > > > > > > trace:virtual:VIRTUAL_SetProt 0x462000-0x4e7fff c-rW- > > > trace:virtual:VIRTUAL_DumpView View: 0x40 - 0x57bfff (anonymous) > > > trace:v

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread David Shaw
Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) wrote: Molle Bestefich wrote: David Shaw wrote: Actually, "sticky" posts are ones that don't or can't get deleted No, its not that they get deleted, but under a category, with time the posts that aren't sticky are at the bottom of the pile (page 3

Re: [Wine] Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread David Shaw
Molle Bestefich wrote: Paul wrote: No seriously, I don't have the time to spend going out and monitoring a dozen forums. I find mail lists much more convenient ... the information comes to me, I don't have to go to the information. I feel the same. I'd like to know exactly what it is

Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
Saturday, April 22, 2006, 4:14:28 PM, Segin wrote: > Actually, it seems most users like to send messages via their > emailclient, but like in another email i sent, they also resent their > emailclients for lack of pretty graphics, colors, and the mailing > listrestriction on annoying HTML markup (n

Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Segin
Actually, it seems most users like to send messages via their email client, but like in another email i sent, they also resent their email clients for lack of pretty graphics, colors, and the mailing list restriction on annoying HTML markup (namely none allowed) which if you look at it, is real

About the web forums and why it's just a waste of time

2006-04-22 Thread Segin
This is a big of a nag, but mostly truth. Hear me out. Most of users' problem with the email is the lack of spiffy graphics. I don't understand why people rant and rave onver the email because it doesn't have spiffy graphics. Also, this extends to HTML formatting. They want to be able to use g

Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread James Trotter
On 4/22/06, Segin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why aren't I offering suggestions? I did offer one. The rest are beyond our control. To attempt to fix those would be as intelligent as sticking your hand into a boiling pot of water. Let's look at that last one, the sticky thing. This usua

Re: SoC idea: get Sun's JRE working well

2006-04-22 Thread Dan Kegel
On 4/22/06, Segin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Kegel wrote: > >A lot of applications rely on Sun's JRE, some even use it in their > >installers! > >(cf. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5040 ) > >Getting Sun's JRE working properly on Wine would be a great project. > > There is a version

Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Segin
Why aren't I offering suggestions? I did offer one. The rest are beyond our control. To attempt to fix those would be as intelligent as sticking your hand into a boiling pot of water. Let's look at that last one, the sticky thing. This usually means to have a email highlighted in a way that it

Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread James Trotter
On 4/22/06, Segin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I have noted below problems that we can take care of, and thosethat aren't our problem, never were, never will be, impossible to be ourproblem, (you get the picture), because they are PEBKAC errors :) For all of those that don't know: PEBKAC = Pro

Re: SoC idea: get Sun's JRE working well

2006-04-22 Thread Segin
Dan Kegel wrote: A lot of applications rely on Sun's JRE, some even use it in their installers! (cf. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5040 ) Getting Sun's JRE working properly on Wine would be a great project. -- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv There is a version of

Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Segin
Hello, I have noted below problems that we can take care of, and those that aren't our problem, never were, never will be, impossible to be our problem, (you get the picture), because they are PEBKAC errors :) For all of those that don't know: PEBKAC = Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair

SoC idea: get Sun's JRE working well

2006-04-22 Thread Dan Kegel
A lot of applications rely on Sun's JRE, some even use it in their installers! (cf. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5040 ) Getting Sun's JRE working properly on Wine would be a great project. -- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv

Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Molle Bestefich
Hi I've tried to sum up the problems with the wine-users mailing list that are urging many people to call for a forum.winehq.org. I hope it's useful. Problems 1) Cannot post without configured mail client 2) Browsing old topics and replying/posting new ones happen in two different p

Re: REALLY old backwards compatability and Wine

2006-04-22 Thread Segin
Molle Bestefich wrote: Segin wrote: you all may find intersting. Not me. Nyah, nyah. I went to make sure that Wine wasn't broken, so I re-exec'd the binary, but only to get this: I've recently seen exceptions too when trying to run Win3.1 (and DOS,

Re: SoC idea: improve dsound/winmm

2006-04-22 Thread Eric Pouech
Willie Sippel wrote: Don't know if this really helps in any way, but I think it should be noted: For a few games (eg, Freelancer), I noticed that the background music stutters. This is often _not_ DSound or WinMM related, but a bug in Wine's MP3 codec. Using a native codec (eg, Fraunhofer Radiu

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Dan Kegel
Mike Hearn wrote: >> Worse still, if a particular web forum goes offline, all its >> content is lost; not so for mailing lists, which are archived >> in multiple locations and so are much more reliable and long-lived. > > If you mean archived in peoples inboxes, then I'd argue that this is > really

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Jeremy Newman
Currently the WineHQ server really does not have much space left over. Alexandre and I have had a few issues with the box running out of hard drive space. We need to know if this is really needed. Is providing a forum really better than: a good FAQ in the Wiki, the forums in the AppDB, Bugzilla, t

Re: REALLY old backwards compatability and Wine

2006-04-22 Thread Vitaly Lipatov
В сообщении от 22 апреля 2006 19:36 Segin написал(a): ... > =>1 0xb7df2e97 memset+0x37 in libc.so.6 (0xb7df2e97) > 2 0x7eed158d DllMain+0x22 in winedos (0x7eed158d) ... > > I hope this helps. Check the bug 5008: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5008 I saw there log output like your one. --

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread KGJ
Hello, I like mailing lists more than forums. But I think most "normal" computer users have a different view. That's why I like the idea of a wine forum. n0dalus wrote: On 4/22/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't like web interfaces! No seriously, I don't have the time

Re: PROT_EXEC mmap/mprotect, i386 PAE + NX broken, x86-64 2.6.17-rc2

2006-04-22 Thread Jesse Allen
On 4/22/06, Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:12:06 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > Well, I'm using a "modified" game executable which does not check for the > > presence of a CD. However, it hooks into the original game executable so > > that > > the game can

Re: PROT_EXEC mmap/mprotect, i386 PAE + NX broken, x86-64 2.6.17-rc2

2006-04-22 Thread Jesse Allen
On 4/22/06, Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Certainly, find it here (261K): > > > > http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/wine/dump.log > > This is the section with the entry point in: > > 04 .iyhivxVirtSize: 548864VirtAddr: 401408 0x00062000 > raw data offs: 356352 r

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)
Molle Bestefich wrote: David Shaw wrote: Actually, "sticky" posts are ones that don't or can't get deleted Aha. So people usually delete posts from bulletin boards after some time? Who decides what gets deleted, an administrator or the postee, time, or?... That's a feature that would

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)
Mike Hearn wrote: On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:49:15 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: I dislike the thought of having to monitor multiple forums. Well, it's not like non-forumers would be banned or anything :) Worse still, if a particular web forum goes offline, all its content is lost; not so f

Re: PROT_EXEC mmap/mprotect, i386 PAE + NX broken, x86-64 2.6.17-rc2

2006-04-22 Thread Jesse Allen
On 4/22/06, Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 22 April 2006 10:09, Marcus Meissner wrote: > > Here is the culprit: > > > > trace:virtual:VIRTUAL_SetProt 0x462000-0x4e7fff c-rW- > > trace:virtual:VIRTUAL_DumpView View: 0x40 - 0x57bfff (anonymous) > > trace:virtual:V

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)
Molle Bestefich wrote: Paul wrote: No seriously, I don't have the time to spend going out and monitoring a dozen forums. I find mail lists much more convenient ... the information comes to me, I don't have to go to the information. I feel the same. I'd like to know exactly what it is

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Molle Bestefich
Mike Hearn wrote: > Obviously _some_ people post to wine-users, but judging from other > projects I'd expect there to be a lot of others who don't, simply > because they're not comfortable with mailing lists as an interface. When I first tried Wine many a year ago, it didn't work. I saw there was

Re: REALLY old backwards compatability and Wine

2006-04-22 Thread Molle Bestefich
Segin wrote: > you all may find intersting. Not me. Nyah, nyah. > I went to make sure that Wine wasn't broken, so I re-exec'd the binary, > but only to get this: I've recently seen exceptions too when trying to run Win3.1 (and DOS, but I'm not sure that's supposed to work) applications. Sucks,

Re: SoC idea: improve dsound/winmm

2006-04-22 Thread Willie Sippel
Don't know if this really helps in any way, but I think it should be noted: For a few games (eg, Freelancer), I noticed that the background music stutters. This is often _not_ DSound or WinMM related, but a bug in Wine's MP3 codec. Using a native codec (eg, Fraunhofer Radium codec) fixes the st

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Molle Bestefich
David Shaw wrote: > Actually, "sticky" posts are ones that don't or can't get deleted Aha. So people usually delete posts from bulletin boards after some time? Who decides what gets deleted, an administrator or the postee, time, or?... That's a feature that would be very hard to implement as a w

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Molle Bestefich
Segin wrote: > People get upset with me cause I won't reveal my real name, That, or maybe just because you act like an asshole :-). n0dalus wrote: > Some ideas: > - Threads get shown in usual bulletin board style What exactly is that? I agree that the pipermail interface is nothing short of abs

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Mike Hearn
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:49:15 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > I dislike the thought of having to monitor multiple forums. Well, it's not like non-forumers would be banned or anything :) > Worse still, if a particular web forum goes offline, all its > content is lost; not so for mailing lists, which are

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Mike Hearn
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:57:48 -0500, Paul wrote: > I don't like web interfaces! > > No seriously, I don't have the time to spend going out and monitoring a > dozen forums. I find mail lists much more convenient ... the > information comes to me, I don't have to go to the information. That's a var

Re: git & sharing patches (was: SoC idea: improve dsound/winmm)

2006-04-22 Thread Mike Hearn
I don't know. I simply reverse all my patches before doing a git update. It doesn't seem able to cope with the idea of non-committed patches at all. I guess there is probably some way to do it ... maybe just committing it to your tree will work. For now I'd just apply it and see if it works. It's

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Segin
n0dalus wrote: On 4/22/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't like web interfaces! No seriously, I don't have the time to spend going out and monitoring a dozen forums. I find mail lists much more convenient ... the information comes to me, I don't have to go to the informat

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Segin
Molle Bestefich wrote: Paul wrote: No seriously, I don't have the time to spend going out and monitoring a dozen forums. I find mail lists much more convenient ... the information comes to me, I don't have to go to the information. I feel the same. I'd like to know exac

REALLY old backwards compatability and Wine

2006-04-22 Thread Segin
This is a email that serves multiple purposes, and you all may find intersting. Wine, as we all know, is able to load and run native programs that the real McCoy can't run, but these programs are also close to 20 years old, so nobody really cares anyways. That's right, programs for Windows 2

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Molle Bestefich
Paul wrote: > No seriously, I don't have the time to spend going out and monitoring a > dozen forums. I find mail lists much more convenient ... the > information comes to me, I don't have to go to the information. I feel the same. I'd like to know exactly what it is that people find so convenien

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread n0dalus
On 4/22/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't like web interfaces! > > No seriously, I don't have the time to spend going out and monitoring a > dozen forums. I find mail lists much more convenient ... the > information comes to me, I don't have to go to the information. > We could alwa

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)
Dan Kegel wrote: Mike Hearn wrote: [Let's set up web forums for wine users] I dislike the thought of having to monitor multiple forums. Worse still, if a particular web forum goes offline, all its content is lost; not so for mailing lists, which are archived in multiple locations and s

git & sharing patches (was: SoC idea: improve dsound/winmm)

2006-04-22 Thread Molle Bestefich
Mike Hearn wrote: > Do the artifacts change or disappear if you use my thread priority patch? I'd like to try out your patch with a couple of apps where sound is shoddy. What's the correct GIT way to apply your patch (and still be able to pull changes from the Wine tree)? Apologies if it's a stup

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread James Hawkins
On 4/22/06, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your goal is to make sure that the average person can > get answers to his or her questions about Wine, that's > a noble enterprise. I would prefer a solution that doesn't > have the reliability and usability problems of the current crop of >

Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Dan Kegel
Mike Hearn wrote: > [Let's set up web forums for wine users] I dislike the thought of having to monitor multiple forums. Worse still, if a particular web forum goes offline, all its content is lost; not so for mailing lists, which are archived in multiple locations and so are much more reliable an

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Segin
Mike Hearn wrote: Many projects, including large ones such as Gentoo, provide web forums for their users. The benefits are: * Users can help each other * Sometimes developers may read it and: * Be able to help users too * Learn what difficulties people are facing * Many people seem to prefe

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Paul
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 14:39 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > Many projects, including large ones such as Gentoo, provide web forums for > their users. The benefits are: > > * Users can help each other > > * Sometimes developers may read it and: > * Be able to help users too > * Learn what difficult

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Paul
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 14:39 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > Many projects, including large ones such as Gentoo, provide web forums for > their users. The benefits are: > > * Users can help each other > > * Sometimes developers may read it and: > * Be able to help users too > * Learn what difficult

Re: msvcrt: sharing violation caused by duplicated hande in _get_osfhandle

2006-04-22 Thread Eric Pouech
qingdoa daoo wrote: Hi, wine's implementation of _get_osfhandle is found to cause sharing violation in some apps. The author commented this piece of code with a block of FIXME warning about possible leakage. It turns out it's no just a matter of leakage. A simple test program ---

Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Mike Hearn
Many projects, including large ones such as Gentoo, provide web forums for their users. The benefits are: * Users can help each other * Sometimes developers may read it and: * Be able to help users too * Learn what difficulties people are facing * Many people seem to prefer the web interface

Re: PROT_EXEC mmap/mprotect, i386 PAE + NX broken, x86-64 2.6.17-rc2

2006-04-22 Thread Mike Hearn
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:12:06 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > Well, I'm using a "modified" game executable which does not check for the > presence of a CD. However, it hooks into the original game executable so that > the game can validate itself. Alas, it's probably not the more pure win32

Re: PROT_EXEC mmap/mprotect, i386 PAE + NX broken, x86-64 2.6.17-rc2

2006-04-22 Thread Marcus Meissner
> > > http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/wine/virtual.log > > > > Here is the culprit: > > > > trace:virtual:VIRTUAL_SetProt 0x462000-0x4e7fff c-rW- > > trace:virtual:VIRTUAL_DumpView View: 0x40 - 0x57bfff (anonymous) > > trace:virtual:VIRTUAL_DumpView 0x40 - 0x400fff c-r-- > > trace:virt

Re: SoC idea: improve dsound/winmm

2006-04-22 Thread Mike Hearn
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:17:45 -0400, Segin wrote: > I have a suggestion for a clearer definition: Get Super Collapse 2 to > work in Wine without audio artifacts or a mile of dsound err code dumped > to the console. Do the artifacts change or disappear if you use my thread priority patch?

Re: PROT_EXEC mmap/mprotect, i386 PAE + NX broken, x86-64 2.6.17-rc2

2006-04-22 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 22 April 2006 10:09, Marcus Meissner wrote: [snip] > > > > [alistair] 11:17 [~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Warcraft III] wine > > > > war3.exe -opengl wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to > > > > 0x00495000 at address 0x495000 (thread 0009), starting debugger... > > > > > > > >

Re: PROT_EXEC mmap/mprotect, i386 PAE + NX broken, x86-64 2.6.17-rc2

2006-04-22 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 22 April 2006 08:38, Marcus Meissner wrote: [snip] > Well, in your case it seems to be the main executable, since it faults > at its very first instruction. Maybe I'm just misunderstanding what you're saying here, but the problem is _not_ with the application I am attempting to run. I

Re: PROT_EXEC mmap/mprotect, i386 PAE + NX broken, x86-64 2.6.17-rc2

2006-04-22 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 09:43:43AM +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Saturday 22 April 2006 08:38, Marcus Meissner wrote: > [snip] > > Well, in your case it seems to be the main executable, since it faults > > at its very first instruction. > > Maybe I'm just misunderstanding what you're s

Re: SoC idea: improve dsound/winmm

2006-04-22 Thread Eric Pouech
James Hawkins wrote: On 4/21/06, Roderick Colenbrander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, One of the things users complain about is wine's sound quality. Problems which you experience range from crackling sound in media players to buffer underruns and high latencies in games. For a part the probl

Re: PROT_EXEC mmap/mprotect, i386 PAE + NX broken, x86-64 2.6.17-rc2

2006-04-22 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 04:30:24AM +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > Hi, > > Just a heads up that WINE seems to suffer from breakage if executed as a > 32bit > binary on an x86-64 kernel as of 2.6.17-rc, because (according to Andi Kleen) > i386 NX is now enabled by default, and on x86-64 i