April 2006 - Wine-Devel - list.winehq.org

Re: winedbg: analyse far calls in be_i386_is_func_call
by Eric Pouech April 2, 2006

April 2, 2006

Jeff L wrote: > This patch came about when I was looking at why single stepping seemed > to stuff up after a call. It breaks down the calls for 32 bit mode > calls but not necessarily 16 and not 64 bit calls. It is a fairly messy > area of knowledge and I could do with assistance as to how the 16/32/64 > bit modes work. > > Change log: Add code to analyse far calls in be_i386_is_func_call > instead of only near calls. > > Jeff Latimer > + switch (rm) > + { > + case 0x00: > + segment = dbg_context.Eax; > + break; > + case 0x01: > + segment = dbg_context.Ecx; > + break; > + case 0x02: > + segment = dbg_context.Edx; > + break; > + case 0x03: > + segment = dbg_context.Ebx; > + break; > + case 0x04: > + break; > + case 0x05: > + segment = dbg_context.Ebp; > + break; > + case 0x06: > + segment = dbg_context.Esi; > + break; > + case 0x07: > + segment = dbg_context.Edi; > + break; > + } this is wrong... this is part of the offset computation, not the segment (as it's an intra-segment call) > + callee->Mode = AddrModeFlat; > + callee->Segment = segment; > + callee->Offset = delta; /* absolute address not an offset */ here you should use a callee->Mode of AddrMode1632 or AddrMode1616, not a flat one basically, you can tell if it's a 16 or 32 bit call depending whether the current cs refers to a 16 or 32 bit selector A+ -- Eric Pouech

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AppDB problem
by Segin April 2, 2006

April 2, 2006

While changing user prefences, I got this error: Database Error! Query: REPLACE session_list VALUES ('0b7b7e6e2b25056088b212db53619c9c', '', '', 'current|O:4:\"user\":7:{s:7:\"iUserId\";s:5:\"72211\";s:6:\"sEmail\";s:17:\"segin11(a)yahoo.com\";s:9:\"sRealname\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sStamp\";s:14:\"20051229230938\";s:12:\"sDateCreated\";s:19:\"2005-07-09 01:45:14\";s:12:\"sWineRelease\";s:8:\"20050524\";s:17:\"bInactivityWarned\";N;}', '', NOW()) Deadlock found when trying to get lock; Try restarting transaction Just thought this was worth reporting.

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Re: Keyboard Rewrite
by Tom Spear April 2, 2006

April 2, 2006

On 4/1/06, Derek Fawcus <dfawcus(a)cisco.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 01:33:18PM -0600, Tom Spear wrote: > > Hi all, this is a call for volunteers. I am hoping that certain > developers > > participating in another thread are willing to rewrite the keyboard > code, > > but we need people to test. If you are interested, please reply here > saying > > that you are interested, and what kind of keyboard you use, as well as > the > > layout you use under X. I will be creating a wiki page for this project > > once the people who will be taking on this rewrite confirm that they > will do > > so, and will post the link to this thread as soon as it is created. > > > > The purpose of this rewrite is to (hopefully) fix all of the problems > people > > have with key mappings, characters not showing up as expected, race > > conditions, characters not showing up at all, etc, and hopefully allow > us to > > close out many of the bugs in bugzilla having to do with the keyboard. > > Well I'd be willing to try, as I have a peculier keyboard layout, and > failed > on my first attempt to hack the wine source to match, it seemed to ignore > what I specified wrt to symbol changes. But then I did not try debugging > it. > > I'm using a UK layout 105 key keyboard, with a few changes that make if > more > like a teminal keyboard, so it is a bit of a weird mix between a USA and > a > UK mapping. Some of the choices derive from the fact that this is plugged > in to a UK layout IBM T40, and so the extra windows are missing when > using > the native keyboard. > > The descriptions below apply to the layout of the external keyboard, not > they > laptop layout. > > The key Marked 'Esc' (to left of F1) generates Backslash (or Bar when > shifted) > > Some of the number row is remapped to be more like the USA/Terminal form: > > Key to left of '1!' (keycode 49) generates Escape (like a proper > terminal) > Shift of '2' gives At (normally Quotedbl) > Shift of '3' gives NumberSign (normally Sterling) > AltGR of '3' gives Sterling > AltGR of '4' gives EuroSign > > I had to change the results generated by keys to the right of 'L' such > that > they made sense. So I also have a bunch of quotes there: > > The key to the right of ';:', marked as "'@', keycode 48 gives the > following: > Unshifted Apostrophe (normal, as marked) > Shifted QuoteDbl (normally At) > AltGR LeftSingleQuoteMark > AltGR+Shift LeftDoubleQuoteMark > The key to the right of that one, marked as "#~', keycode 51 gives the > following: > Unshifted Grave (normally NumberSign) > Shifted AsciiTilde (normal, as marked) > AltGR RightSingleQuoteMark > AltGR+Shift RightDoubleQuoteMark > > Caps Lock (to left of 'A') gives is a duplicate Control_L, and no key > generates Caps Lock > > The key marked '\|' to the right of the left shift key, is a duplicate > Shift_L > The left windows key (between left shift and left alt) generates Super_L > The right windows key (between AltGR and Menu key) generates Super_R > The Menu key (between right windows key and right control key) generates > Alt_R > > The AltGR key is ISO_Level3_Shift, and when shifted is Multi_key. But > I've never > found a use for Multi_key yet. > > DF > Ok. Are these outputs that you are giving us what the keyboard shows under a native app, or what they currently show under wine? What layout do you pick under X? en_US, en_GB, pc105 no dead keys? Thanks Tom

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Re: WineD3D: Do not set the mipmap level count for old textures
by Stefan Dösinger April 1, 2006

April 1, 2006

Am Samstag, 1. April 2006 19:34 schrieb Stefan Dösinger: > The attached patch stops WineD3D from re-setting the GL_TEXTURE_MAX_LEVEL > texture parameter every time a texture is used. It is not necessary, as the > max level is a property of the texture and not the active unit(according to > Lionel Ulmer). Setting the maximum level causes the 3d driver to dirtify > the texture in the video memory, which has to be reloaded then every time > it is used. > > This patch should greatly increase the performance of most games. (I > noticed an fps improvement of a factor of 5) A small addition here: This case seems to be handled by the nvidia driver already, so the performance improvement applies only to ati cards. I tested this with my mobility radeon 9000 with the open source driver from Xorg7.0 and fglrx 8.23.7

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Direct3D, the kernel and ReactOS
by Stefan Dösinger April 1, 2006

April 1, 2006

Hello List, I had a talk to the DirectX developers of reactos on their irc channel to discuss how Reactos and Wine can share efforts on DirectX. (Please leave the legal issues asside for now, let us concentrate on the technical part for now). I didn't expect much possibility for a cooperation in such a hw-related thing as DirextX, but Greatlord told me about the gdi / win32k problem Wine is heading to with the current DirectX code. According to Greatlord, Microsoft's DirectX implementation basically consists of a kernel-side part in gdi.dll and win32k.sys, and a user-mode part in ddraw.dll, d3d8.dll and d3d9.dll. The user dlls contain the Hardware emulation layer code, and calls to the kernel for the Hardware abstraction layer. Now that wouldn't be a problem for Wine, as applications are expected to use the user mode dlls, and using the kernel interface is highly discouraged by Microsoft. However, there are a few apps out there which access the kernel interface directly, and Greatlord told me that he knew about a few companies which plan to use it to gain speed improvement. Expectedly, such apps won't work on Wine. My long term suggestion is to move the Direct3D->OpenGL translation code from WineD3D to gdi and a win32k sys, and write ddraw.dll, d3d8.dll and d3d9.dll to use that interface. The user mode dlls can be shared with Reactos, and from a technical point of view, even Microsoft's DirectX dlls can be used on Wine(including the hardware emulation layer). I know that this is not easy to achieve. The kernel interface is poorly documented, and Greatlord has spent a lot of effort to verify the docs and to write a better documentation of the interface. Apps using the kernel interface should be considered broken, and I don't give them a long lifetime as the interface changes from Windows version to Windows version(According to Microsoft, Greatlord says it didn't change since NT(2K?) ). Should we go this way and implement the kernel Direct3D interface? If so, I consider this something post-1.0, and we should definitely see what changes Vista brings. Another thing we discussed was DirectInput. ReactOS uses wines dinput.dll, with improvements which gets the sdk demos and some nasty games working. I can see if I can merge the changes to Wine.

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Firefox much faster with 0.9.11?!
by Dan Kegel April 1, 2006

April 1, 2006

I dunno what y'all did, but Firefox now downloads long mailing list indices much faster than it used to. This dogfood is getting yummier every month. - Dan -- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv

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request for Orkut wine forum manager
by Shachar Shemesh April 1, 2006

April 1, 2006

Hi all, If you don't know who I am, please do skip the rest of this paragraph. As you well know, I have not been as active on the Wine project as I wish. Unfortunately, this is not going to change much in the near future :-( I am currently the manager of the "Wine" forum on Orkut. I just got an email asking to do some operation (enabling email to members), which clarified to me that, perhaps, my lack of activity is to the disadvantage of the community members. And so, I would like to ask the esteemed members of this list. Is there anyone here who would like to take this responsibility from me? Please be sure to CC me on replies. Thanks, Shachar

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Budget Dedicated has provided us with a server and a ton of free bandwidth
by Scott Ritchie April 1, 2006

April 1, 2006

Hello folks, Just wanted to let everyone know that I finished setting up the server Budget Dedicated has given us. (http://www.budgetdedicated.com) Currently it's hosting the APT repository: deb http://wine.lowvoice.nl/apt breezy main deb-src http://wine.lowvoice.nl/apt breezy main Now, here's the cool thing: we're not confined by disk space anymore here, so we can host .deb packages in the APT repository for different distributions. This includes backports to Debian Sarge, as well as forward ports to new versions of Ubuntu like Dapper, or even whatever other crazy deb distro we want to package. Budget Dedicated has also given permission for other things to be moved there, such as the Wine website (or parts thereof). The server is super fast and on a very fat pipe in the Netherlands, so for anyone in Europe it'll almost certainly be better to download things from there. For now, however, it's just an APT repository, and the APT repository just has Ubuntu Breezy packages, however it would be very easy to add packages for other distributions or architectures - just send me an email and I can take care of it. Thanks, Scott Ritchie

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Photoshop plugins in Gimp on Linux using Wine!
by Dan Kegel April 1, 2006

April 1, 2006

I've been hearing rumblings about people using Wine to run windows photoshop plugins on Linux Gimp, but hadn't seen anything concrete. Well, here it is: http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/pspi.html Have a look. Congratulations, Wine! - Dan -- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv

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Re: Software Freedom Conservancy
by Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) April 1, 2006

April 1, 2006

Jeremy White wrote: >> No objection from me.. Although, I should mention that I haven't seen >> much in the way of a link to donate to the project. Theres no link on >> the main page anywhere that I can see. Perhaps the fund would be a >> little bigger if it was easier to find a donate link? >> > > Hmm. On the lower right hand side of the main page is a donate > link, and there is also a donations request on Sourceforge. > > But you raise a good point; feel free to make a suggestion > for how it should change (a patch?) - I'm certainly not opposed. > > (Although the honest truth is that we raise more money than > we need right now, at least for Wine. For CodeWeavers, we can > always use more money :-/) > > Cheers, > > Jeremy > > hmm.. I didn't see that at all lol. I did however notice the contributing link shortly after I sent the last email. I think if we put the donate link (as well as the codeweavers link) on the left just under the search link they might get noticed a little more.. Of course you do raise a good point about raising more money than wine really needs, so on to the next idea... The short answer is that I dont have an idea right now, but I have done some thinking about it.. If you want the long answer, keep reading, else, just click close lol... Obviously codeweavers requires advertising and marketing in order to get new customers. The majority of that advertising so far has been done by the community and word of mouth. The biggest step towards taking codeweavers mainstream is obviously to get more people to switch to linux.. the press has done a decent job of helping us out in that respect, but a lot of people dont read the magazines. I mean I see it all the time on various forums, my favorite being the forum entitled the worst tech support call you have ever made... Someone will get DSL service, and not have a router, and think that it will work out of the box with whatever os they use... So when it doesnt and they cant figure it out, they call dsl tech support, and ask "Do you support Linux?"... Guess what the tech support rep asks 99% of the time... "What is Linux? Is that a new version of Windows?"..... Back to the point though, people dont read magazines or stuff on the internet so they dont know theres an alternative to windows. That means they dont know about cW or crossover. How do we get more users over to Linux? Good question, unfortunately one I don't have an answer for right now. Once we get users to Linux, or maybe even as the hook to get them to switch would be to show them crossover while showing them linux and how not prone to viruses it is, show them internet explorer running under it, or better yet show them stuff like word, excel, and adobe, and then show them firefox and say ok ie is the only app we are going to take away from you.. then the security issues are small (no ie to infect) but they can still use their regular stuff, and their machine will seem more responsive compared to how it ran on windows. I'm sure those are all ideas your people have already had and discussed, but shoot, it would be nice to see some linux based booths at e3 or ces or the revamped comdex once it comes out.. of course the best way to get mainstream is the force your way mainstream, more and better placement on store shelves.. get the stores to start pitching linux and the benefits of using it over windows. then have the rep help them decide on a distro and put them in touch with someone familiar with linux. of course that is all beyond codeweavers and wine's scope, but that is the idea.. get other linux companies to start pushing it more. M$ wants to play hardball? We gotta start predicting their pitches. Tom

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