Message from Wine: IOPL not enabled (again)

Svenn Are Bjerkem · Post by **Svenn Are Bjerkem** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:24 pm

Hi,
on a dual boot laptop I have winXP and Debian sid/squeeze x86_64 installed. Wine is version 1.0.1. WinXP partition is NTFS and mounted read-only under Debian. I have used winecfg to attach the NTFS partition to my drive E: and use winefile to navigate to the microsoft office 11 binaries on E:. Both winword.exe and excel.exe reports the famous IOPL not enabled message. I have not installed any office related files into my ~/.wine hierarchy. I tried several other windows applications that I have installed on the NTFS partition: Foxit PDF reader starts nicely, Googles Picasa 3 starts nicely, Several programs that I didn't expect to start actually did and Acrobat reader gave me a message that it wanted MSVCR80.dll. Obviously some files needed are not found, but the IOPL warning is only issued by Microsoft apps without further warnings in the Linux console window where I started winefile.

By googling I found a suggestion to switch gdiplus library to windows native mode, this didn't help me out. I looked into appdb on the windows issues but these reports are probably made with office installed into ~/.wine/disk_c I don't have much else but a pristine wine install. Since all the files wine is looking for are all located on my NTFS drive on E:, I wonder how I should proceed to direct wine to look there instead of somewhere else.

I could use a virtual machine, but it is not trivial to make a virtual machine work with an existing NTFS partition of winXP, at least not from what I have found so far on the Net.

Any suggestions on how to proceed?
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Svenn

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:26 pm

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Svenn Are
Bjerkem<[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,
on a dual boot laptop I have winXP and Debian sid/squeeze x86_64 installed. Wine is version 1.0.1. WinXP partition is NTFS and mounted read-only under Debian. I have used winecfg to attach the NTFS partition to my drive E: and use winefile to navigate to the microsoft office 11 binaries on E:. Both winword.exe and excel.exe reports the famous IOPL not enabled message. I have not installed any office related files into my ~/.wine hierarchy. I tried several other windows applications that I have installed on the NTFS partition: Foxit PDF reader starts nicely, Googles Picasa 3 starts nicely, Several programs that I didn't expect to start actually did and Acrobat reader gave me a message that it wanted MSVCR80.dll. Obviously some files needed are not found, but the IOPL warning is only issued by Microsoft apps without further warnings in the Linux console window where I started winefile.

By googling I found a suggestion to switch gdiplus library to windows native mode, this didn't help me out. I looked into appdb on the windows issues but these reports are probably made with office installed into ~/.wine/disk_c I don't have much else but a pristine wine install. Since all the files wine is looking for are all located on my NTFS drive on E:, I wonder how I should proceed to direct wine to look there instead of somewhere else.

I could use a virtual machine, but it is not trivial to make a virtual machine work with an existing NTFS partition of winXP, at least not from what I have found so far on the Net.

Any suggestions on how to proceed?

Start by installing the programs in wine, as you would in windows.

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-Austin

Post by **dimesio** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:45 pm

Any suggestions on how to proceed?
Start by installing the programs in wine, as you would in windows.

And if it's Office 2007, upgrade to 1.1.24, as it won't install in 1.0.1 (Office 2003 should).

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=4992

Svenn Are Bjerkem · Post by **Svenn Are Bjerkem** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:34 am

austin987 wrote: Start by installing the programs in wine, as you would in windows.

Well, that was what I would like to avoid in the first place.

I searched in the NTFS partition for the MSVCR80.dll file that Acrobat Reader reported, but I couldn't find it. I found several other MSVCR*.dll files with lower numbers. I hoped it would be possible to copy only selected files from NTFS into my ~/.wine tree to make the applications work. If wine would only report which files it didn't find for winword.exe and excel.exe, but I guess it is not wine but rather the application itself that have a problem.

Anybody know what this IOPL thing is anyway?

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Svenn

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:46 am

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Svenn Are
Bjerkem<[email protected]> wrote:

austin987 wrote:
Start by installing the programs in wine, as you would in windows.

Well, that was what I would like to avoid in the first place.

This doesn't work in windows, and won't in wine.

I searched in the NTFS partition for the MSVCR80.dll file that Acrobat Reader reported, but I couldn't find it. I found several other MSVCR*.dll files with lower numbers. I hoped it would be possible to copy only selected files from NTFS into my ~/.wine tree to make the applications work. If wine would only report which files it didn't find for winword.exe and excel.exe, but I guess it is not wine but rather the application itself that have a problem.

Exactly.

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-Austin