On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 22:56 -0800, Sean Bruno wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 06:52 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Sean Bruno <sean.bruno <at> dsl-only.net> writes: > > > I've been trying to use the Transgaming version of wine on FC6 x86_64 at > > > home recently. > > > > As a wild guess (from reading both this and the thread you pointed to), might > > this be related to ExecShield hardware NX/XD bit support? (Note that I don't > > have an x86_64 machine nor Cedega nor any of the affected Window$ games, so > > please don't ask me to test anything.) > > > > Kevin Kofler > > > > I really don't have a clue. The tech support response was vague with > specifics except to say that there were issues with the copy protection > stuff. > > What is the relationship between 'Execshield hardware NX/XD bit support' > and a x86_64 version of linux? I'm not sure I followed your statement, > but I would like to know more. > > Sean > Answering my own post here: Execshield on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_bit As a follow up, why would Transgaming tech support say that *Fedora* is broken but not mention other distributions? Sean
