wine users - May 2008 - Regression From Platinum: SkyGlobe

I tested the program SkyGlobe 3.6 listed as Platinum in the following
AppDB page:

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=5143

The program failed to start in Wine 1.0-rc1. The following is the
output from the console:

$ wine skyglobe.exe
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0xff)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x05 (value 0x00)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0x10)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x05 (value 0x02)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0xff)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x05 (value 0x00)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0x08)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x05 (value 0x02)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0xff)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x05 (value 0x00)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0x20)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x05 (value 0x02)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0xff)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x05 (value 0x00)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0x10)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x05 (value 0x02)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0xff)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x05 (value 0x00)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0x08)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x05 (value 0x02)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0xff)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x05 (value 0x00)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0x02)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x05 (value 0x02)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0xff)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x05 (value 0x00)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0x04)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x05 (value 0x02)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0xff)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x05 (value 0x00)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0x08)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x05 (value 0x02)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0xff)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x05 (value 0x00)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x04 (value 0x03)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x04 (value 0x02)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x04 (value 0x01)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x04 (value 0x00)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0x02)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x05 (value 0x02)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x05 (value 0x00)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0xff)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x04 (value 0x03)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x04 (value 0x02)
$

http://wiki.winehq.org/PlatinumRegressionHunt
says you should try to verify that the appdb is right
when it says the app is platinum with a particular
old version of wine before declaring a regression.
Did you try that?

In this case, the appdb says it was platinum with wine-0.9.25, but
when I try it under that version here, I get a crash,
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0xffffffff in 32-bit
code (0x7bc64f8f).
Running with current wine gets the same kind of error you had,
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3c4: 0x02
but doesn't crash.
So on this machine, it's working *better* than wine-0.9.25.
(I'm using the old dapper wine-0.9.25 package on gutsy... maybe
that's the problem?)

DanKegel wrote:
> http://wiki.winehq.org/PlatinumRegressionHunt says you should try to verify
that the appdb is right when it says the app is platinum with a particular old
version of wine before declaring a regression. Did you try that?
> 
> In this case, the appdb says it was platinum with wine-0.9.25, but when I
try it under that version here, I get a crash.
Sorry I didn't do that. Where can I get Wine 0.9.25? I'm running Hardy.

Is there a way to run Wine 0.9.25 on Hardy so I can test this?

austin987 wrote:
> You'd have to compile it yourself, likely manually patching for stuff
that's broken. See:
> http://wiki.winehq.org/ReverseRegressionTesting
See my previous post in this thread:


bamm wrote:
> I downloaded the source for 0.9.25 from SourceForge but it wouldn't
compile on Hardy. I get this error:
> 
> make[2]: *** [wldap32.dll.so] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bamm/src/wine-0.9.25/dlls/wldap32'
> 
> Is there another way to test an older Wine version? Thanks.

As DanKegel did, I tried Wine 0.9.25 on Dapper (which fortunately I still have
on live cd). I got the same results he did:

wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0xffffffff at address 0x7bc632d7 (t
hread 000e), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0xffffffff in 32-bit code (0x7
bc632d7).

However austin987 mentions that in Ubuntu versions of wine before around 0.9.24
die on startup with an undebuggable segmentation fault.

So the solution would be to test in another distro? Thanks for any suggestions.

austin987 wrote:
> A bit of a pain, but you'd have to use reverse regression testing to
identify patches needed to enable compiling old code on new
kernels/packages/distros.
Unfortunately for me, I am not yet at that level of expertise. So I just have to
take DanKegel's word for it that this app was wrongly rated as Platinum.