Re: Delorme AAA Map N Go 6 install fail - maybe COM related?

2006-10-16 Thread David D. Hagood
Vitaliy Margolen wrote: Please open proper bug report in bugzilla and attach (don't paste) this terminal output. What I was hoping to do was to gather a bit more information about what is wrong first - for example, while I suspect COM, I cannot unequivicably say it IS COM, so I don't want to

Delorme AAA Map N Go 6 install fail - maybe COM related?

2006-10-16 Thread David D. Hagood
I am getting a crash when I try to install Delorme AAA MapNGo 6 under a fresh build of Wine (CVS as of 15 Oct 2006). The crash leads me to believe there is a problem with Wine's COM system (Delorme is about the most COM-happy company I have seen - I think they would make every pixel a COM objec

Fix bug in MSVCRT handling of CTRL-Z at EOF of text files

2006-08-05 Thread David D. Hagood
The bug in the handling of text mode files with CTRL-Z's at the end is back. Due to compatibility with DOS, which is compatible with CP/M, text mode files may be padded with a number of CTRL-Z characters (\x1A) to fill out a sector. The current Wine implementation of MSVCRT does NOT strip the

Re: wine_main_preload_info not found, cannot use first megabyte, *.exe don't work

2006-07-31 Thread David D. Hagood
I've been posting my findings on this very matter to wine-users - look for "cannot run under Fedora 6 tset 1". I have also found that, if you are running in an SELinux system, you cannot directly run a Windows program using binfmt_misc - the program must have the same security context labels s

Re: wine autorun utility

2006-06-29 Thread David D. Hagood
Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote: hi, I think HAL for linux should handle the automatic mounting and autorunning it take care. So it should be a part of HAL. my 2 cents. I strongly DISAGREE - as others have pointed out, the auto-running of CDs is a severe mis-feature of Windows, one which we should

Re: How are we doing?

2006-06-02 Thread David D. Hagood
Mike McCormack wrote: If what you really want is code that's easier to understand we're better off scrapping all comments... And we can encourage safe driving by removing airbags and seatbelts, and installing big shiny sharp metal spikes on the steering wheel, and executing anybody who has

Re: How are we doing?

2006-06-02 Thread David D. Hagood
Huw Davies wrote: There's a bug in this code, let's try this: /* change by Huw Davies 02-Jun-2006, to fix the return type of the function */ int the_function_that_adds_one_to_i(int i) { /* this adds one to i */ i = i + 1; /* this returns i to the caller */ return i; } That's

Wine won't show any characters after the first run

2006-04-12 Thread David D. Hagood
I'm having a strange problem with Wine - it will not show any characters in any windows, UNLESS I delete Wine's registry files - then it will show characters for the first program run, but no other programs thereafter (including repeat runs of the first program). So, for example, I can run "wi

Re: Debugging Critical Section lockups

2005-12-01 Thread David D. Hagood
Robert Shearman wrote: Yep, example of what not to do in concurrent programming. You should Tell me about it - I do hard realtime for a living. One of the locks is the Win6 lock, another does not seem to have a name (shown as "?" when things go bad). I wonder if, under Real Windows, the Win

Re: Debugging Critical Section lockups

2005-11-30 Thread David D. Hagood
Robert Shearman wrote: David D. Hagood wrote: Unless the installer is using TryEnterCriticalSection, I would expect CPU utilisation to be 0% when deadlocking. Yes, *once the deadlock occurs* the CPU drops to 0%. The issue (I think) is more along the lines of this: On fast CPU

Debugging Critical Section lockups

2005-11-30 Thread David D. Hagood
I may have a repeatable case of an error in locking critical sections, so I'd like some pointers as to how to debug this. The case occurs with the installer for Delorme Street Atlas 5 - on my 2GHz Athlon desktop it runs without a hitch, but on my oold slow laptop (how old is it? It's s

Does the Windows version of Mozilla need to be installed to use the Mozilla ActiveX plugin?

2005-11-29 Thread David D. Hagood
Does the Windows version of Mozilla need to be in place for the Mozilla Active X control to work, or is there a way to point the control at my Linux install of Mozilla?

Re: Error in wine's implementation of msvcrt

2005-11-07 Thread David D. Hagood
Uwe Bonnes wrote: "David" == David D Hagood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... David> I've attached a patch that corrects the problem. David> Changelog It is also a good idea to add a test case in our test suite. Send the test/patch to wine-patches for incl

Re: Error in wine's implementation of msvcrt

2005-11-06 Thread David D. Hagood
Uwe Bonnes wrote: Run with WINEDEBUG=+relay,+snoop WINEDLLOVERRIDES=msvcrt=n wine and WINEDEBUG=+relay,+snoop,+msvcrt WINEDLLOVERRIDES=msvcrt=b wine and compare how the msvcrt calls are handled step by step. Tedious, but promising... Tedious, but productive. Wine's fgets does not behave as do

What to do when X11DRV_DIB_BuildColorMap is called with more than 256 colors?

2005-11-06 Thread David D. Hagood
I have an old copy of Microsoft's Trip Planner 5 software that I was trying to get to run. When I try to plan a trip, the program will draw the map fine, then it attempts to draw the dialog for setting up the trip data. At this point, the app calls X11DRV_DIB_BuildColorMap with a bmiHeader.biCl

Error in wine's implementation of msvcrt

2005-11-06 Thread David D. Hagood
There seems to be some form of error in the Wine implementation of MSVCRT - with three separate programs (Delorme MapNGo 6.0, Delorme Street Atlas 5, Microsoft Trip Planner 5), if I use Wine's builtin MSVCRT, the programs do not work, but if I use the version of MSVCRT the program supplies, the

Problem with Magellan DataSend and COM ports

2005-09-27 Thread David D. Hagood
I recently tried to install the Magellan DataSend tool to talk to my GPS, and it almost works. However, I did find one funny with it - the program did not "see" the COM ports until I added the following entries into the registry: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\hardware\devicemap\serialcomm] "COM2"="COM2"

Trying to track down a failure in a native, non-MS DLL for which I have no source

2005-09-27 Thread David D. Hagood
I'm trying to get the Delorme packages (AAA MapNGo, Street Atlas) running under the latest Wine. They used to work back when Wine used the MS DLLs for DCOM, but then they stopped working when Wine started supplying their own DCOM DLLS. Now, they show an inclination to work but for one thing. B

Re: Get FireFox button ?

2005-07-07 Thread David D. Hagood
As I see it, Firefox links to CX because CX enhances Firefox - it allows FF to run plugins that it could not otherwise run. *IF* Firefox enhanced Wine - by providing an MSHTML-compatible object, for example - then it would make sense to provide a link, as then FF would enhance Wine. But FF d

Re: wine on remote X11 displays

2005-04-21 Thread David D. Hagood
IF this happens when using SSH, something to check is what the actual settings of DISPLAY are: Normally under SSH, DISPLAY will be set to something like: DISPLAY=localhost:10 and SSH will forward TCP port 6010 on the remote machine to the local machine's X server on port 6000. It *could* be tha

Tools for identifying what a DLL provides?

2005-02-28 Thread David D. Hagood
I have a DLL from a manufacturer that I don't have the source for, nor do I have the header or the import library for. Since Wine developers frequently have to reverse engineer what a given DLL provides, does anybody have a good recommendation for a tool that can scan the DLL and report what fu

Re: PRESS: run windows viruses with wine ...

2005-01-27 Thread David D. Hagood
On 01/27/2005 03:03 PM, Troy Rollo wrote: Even if they don't run Outlook Express, with Linux 2.6 there is a facility to have the kernel recognise foreign executable file formats and run them by means of another executable. If used to run Wine executables (and somebody on /. yesterday indicated t

Re: Wine's OLE/COM doesn't work, and I can no longer use native COM

2004-08-08 Thread David D. Hagood
Mike Hearn wrote: Install it all as Win98 if possible, and native DCOM like this: WINEDLLOVERRIDES=ole32,oleaut32,rpcrt4=n wine DCOM98.EXE Well, having done so, and having tried setting all the OLE* and RPC* DLLs to native, I am still having the same problem with that app - so I am forced to conj

Re: Wine's OLE/COM doesn't work, and I can no longer use native COM

2004-08-07 Thread David D. Hagood
Mike Hearn wrote: This is MS DAO. I do not know why your program has regressed but these traces don't show why native DCOM doesn't work. OK, that checks - I know the program does use DAO. As to native DCOM - when I tried to install it, it barfed. But... Are you running Wine in NT mode by any chance

Wine's OLE/COM doesn't work, and I can no longer use native COM

2004-08-07 Thread David D. Hagood
One of the few Windows programs I use is Delorme's MapNGo (versions 4 and 6). Under older versions of Wine wherein I could use the native Windows OLE/COM implementation it worked fairly well, but with the new Wine it does not. The symptoms are that the program cannot create the initial document

Re: How to speed up drawing controls ?

2003-11-20 Thread David D. Hagood
flyker wrote: I set option "PerfectGraphics" = "Y" but it is still slow. Of course. "PerfectGraphics" means "Do whatever it takes to draw things just like Windows would, no matter if it is going to be slower than taking a few liberties" If you want SPEED, turn PerfectGraphics OFF.

Re: Wine coredumps with Linux kernel 2.6.0-test9

2003-10-28 Thread David D. Hagood
Compiled via ./configure with --with-nptl, under 2.6.0-test9

Wine coredumps with Linux kernel 2.6.0-test9

2003-10-28 Thread David D. Hagood
I'm playing with 2.6.0-test9 under RH9.0, and Wine just coredumps when I run it. This is after a full rebuild of Wine, with a CVS pull of a couple of days ago. Since I've seen some other apps behaving weirdly this may be a compatibility issue with 2.6, but I thought I'd see if anybody else has

Re: PATCH: uncripple winword 2000

2003-10-25 Thread David D. Hagood
Andreas Mohr wrote: I do not know, why it does outb $al,0x70, inb 0x71, $al ... That looks like a "read realtime clock/CMOS" function. Now WHY an application would be directly reading the RTC