Need advice on which native dlls to try

Andreas Mohr aqi46g09cu001 at sneakemail.com
Sat Feb 3 19:02:05 CST 2001


Olaf Delgado Friedrichs <delgado at okeeffe-pc3.la.asu.edu> wrote:
> On 2 Feb 2001 06:57:51 GMT, Andreas Mohr <aqi46g09cu001 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
>>These are all potentially native DLLs.
>>I wanted to point out the more important ones, but I can't do that,
>>as nearly all DLLs seem to be equally important.
>>So just get a load of these and try it with some -dll DLL=n or
>>--dll DLL=n,DLL2=b arguments.
>>After some experimentation there *should* be a change in behaviour.
>>For better or for worse... ;-))

> Thanks a lot, but - sigh! After resolving dependencing and other
> conflicts, I keep getting the same result. I'm not so keen on
> systematically trying several k of combinations by hand, so I am
> hoping for some additional insight.

> Looking at the offending address let's me suspect that x11.drv is
> involved somehow. Here's an excerpt of the module trace:

> trace:module:load_library loaded x11drv.dll 0x40324858 40aa0000
> trace:module:MODULE_LoadLibraryExA Loaded module 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\x11drv.DLL'
>  at 0x40aa0000, 

> [...]

> err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection Critical section 0x40ad2dfc wait timed out
> , retrying (60 sec) fs=0287



> Would that give any hint on what to try next?
Load up winedbg and do a disas 0x40ad2dfc to find out which crst
is the problem.

> PS: Anyway, Wine is a great project. It's already starting to spoil
> me. I don't look for Linux software so hard anymore. If there's a
> Windows tool around for something I want to do, I just get it and give
> it a try. :)
You bastard ! ;-)
I think you'll get stoned by some Unix bigots for saying that...
Oh yeah, and thanks for nourishing the gold ol' "Wine is evil" arguments :)

Andreas Mohr



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