Re: XWin on Win95

[Nick Thompson <nickthompson at lucent dot com>]

So what does '-screen 0 ....' mean; 0 screens?! If I use a value of 1 or 8
(haven't tried others) I still get the Direct Draw error, but if I use 0, I
get the X hatched background but my PC locks up, requiring a hard reset. The
mouse is dead and ctrl-alt-del does nothing.

Is there anything else I could try?

Nick

Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:

> > Okay, I copied rgb.txt from /usr/lib/X11/lib/rgb.txt into the specified
> > path. That line has no gone the rest are the same.
> >
> > I noticed that bitsPerPixel was 10 (=16?) when I asked for 1024x768x8.
> > This got me wondering and I played around with the command line. What
> > does the '-screen 8' option do?
>
> Sorry forgot this part to answer.
>
> screen is number screens.  It is a multihead server.  You can run
> upto 8 screens.  It will be of better use once multiwindowing is working.
>
> Suhaib
>
> >I put '-screen 0' thinking that it might
> > mean 'localhost:0' and a X hatched display filled my whole screen. This
> > is more than I've seen before, but my PC then just locked up. I thought
> > I'd ask what the screen option does, before I play around any more....
> >
> > Nick.
> >
> > Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > scheduling timer: Invalid argument
> > > > Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
> > >
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ what is install PATH?  X needs it and should
> > > find it or will crash on you.
> > >
> > > > _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> > > > pwin->width = 00000500
> > > > pwin->height = 00000400
> > > > pwin->paddedWidth = 00000a00
> > > > pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000010
> > > > calling winAllocateFramebufferMemory
> > > >
> > > > Then dialog box: "Direct Draw Init Failed     Error =