kernel patch needed for wine?

Sergey Nikolenko s at swa.org.ru
Mon Jul 12 15:50:23 UTC 2010


On 12.07.2010 18:25, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
>> Last Tuesday blizzard release World of Warcraft 3.3.5, and with this
>> patch World of warcraft stopped working in FreeBSD 8.1 amd64, it
>> crashes right after login.
>>
>> I have been playing World of Warcraft on FreeBSD amd64 since December
>> of 2009 using the beta Nvidia 64bit drivers and this wine how-to
>>
>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine#head-6963d527c173e57b1567e881305b544d33435b6d
>>
>> I can verify that on PCBSD 8.1 RC1 32bit World of warcraft works post
>> 3.3.5 so far as I can tell it is only broken on amd64.
>
> Could you give the attached patch a try?
>
> cd /usr/src
> patch -p1<  /path/to/patch-amd64-dr7
> make buildkernel installkernel

Just tried, it works.
Gamers will be happy I suppose. :)


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