FC6 x86_64: Trying to debug Transgaming/wineHQ wine

Sean Bruno sean.bruno at dsl-only.net
Thu Feb 8 06:56:19 UTC 2007


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




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