Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

[Tom Wickline]

On Dec 6, 2007 1:58 PM, Marc Fonvieille <blackend at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > More info can be found here:
> >
> > Wine-Review front Page:
> > http://wine-review.blogspot.com/
> >
>
> Hello,

Hello Marc,

>
> I use to follow your blog since the beginning, I'm happy to see you
> "supporting" FreeBSD.

Yea, FreeBSD rocks! Gentoo user as well :D

>
> > Office 97/2000:
> > http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/microsoft-office-2000-on-freebsd-7-with.html
> [...]
>
> In September had to play with Office 2k and I followed your linux
> related instruction to run it under FreeBSD (I note your FreeBSD related
> article is identical to the linux one).  But, I never were able to run
> Excel, this one just hangs once the main page is displayed (Word runs
> fine).  I wonder if you never met this issue.
>
> Here's what I got in the terminal:
> err:iphlpapi:getRouteTable Received unsupported sockaddr family 0x12
> err:iphlpapi:getRouteTable Unexpected address type 0x10
> err:iphlpapi:getRouteTable Unexpected address type 0x20
> err:iphlpapi:getRouteTable Received unsupported sockaddr family 0x12
> err:iphlpapi:getRouteTable Unexpected address type 0x10
> err:iphlpapi:getRouteTable Unexpected address type 0x20

> err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x1320e0 "moniker.c:
> RunningObjectTableImpl.lock" wait timed out in thread 0009, blocked by
> 0000, retrying (60 sec)

What you could try is to install dcom98 and in it will use a native storage.dll

> fixme:storage:StgCreateDocfile Transacted mode not implemented.

looks like the culprit.. i didn't run into this tho.. ill re-install
Office 2k again and test everything
another time.

Cheers,

Tom

>
> --
> Marc
>