Thanks for the response. If that's true it does sound like I should just quit. Frustrating though, as this is one of the few things that forces me to keep windows around. I may just setup a cheap little windows box, so my main CPU can always run linux. On Friday 25 October 2002 11:31 am, Peter Andersson wrote: > Hiya! > Maybe this program checks the debugging processor registers > somehow? > > Wine Gurus out there: Could this be the explanation? > > The ptrace syscall which Wine uses,setup the process in debug mode > (thus using the debug registers). Probably some kind of copy > protection in the ACR program checks the debug registers somehow. > > I believe wine is heavily dependent of the ptrace call (correct me if Im > wrong, Wine gurus), for example for catching DOS interupts. > Unless there is a way to turn off ptrace calls in Wine, or you hack your > app to not do these checks, you wont be able to run your program. > > > //Peter > > On Thursday 24 October 2002 01.49, Paul wrote: > > I am trying to run a windows program called ACR with Wine on a Mandrake > > system. The install goes beautifully (thanks to all of those hardworking > > programmers!). But when I try to run ACR it complains that Windows is > > being run in Debug mode and quits. > > > > This is also what happened when trying to run ACR on Win4Lin. Does this > > make running ACR hopeless on any emmulator or is there a way around this? > > > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > > wine-users mailing list > > wine-users@winehq.com > > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
