RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Offscreen and No DirectInput Test 7

[Andrew Lynch <lynchaj at yahoo dot com>]

HEAR HEAR! 
Congratulations Suhaib, Harold, John, and others!

I tried the recent version 7 of the test and it worked
pretty good on my Toshiba laptop.  There is some
expected early alpha oddness, but hey, its a LOT
better than it was!  IT WORKS!

All of my configuration info is still the same from
the original post.

Congratulations!

Andrew Lynch

lynchaj at yahoo dot com

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Changes:
1)  Removed DDLOCK_NOSYSLOCK flag in call to
IDirectDrawSurface_Lock; John
Fortin said that flag doesn't exist in DirectX 3... I
can't find the
documentation to back that up, but I'll go with it. 
Testers with failures
in IDirectDrawSurface_Lock() seem to all be running
Windows NT 4.0 SP3+; so,
John is probably right that the said flag is not
supported in DirectX 3.
Any Windows 98 testers out there please check in if
the latest release works
for you.

Known Issues:
1)  Don't move the window :)

2)  Be careful when moving focus to and away from the
window; the best bet
is to minimize the window, rather than just clicking
on another app

3)  Not feature complete - the only goal of the
current testing is to get an
image from the X server to appear on every tester's
machine

Updates in this test release were constrained to
xf_dx.dll, so, if you
already have the Test 3, or greater, full package
(OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2) installed, you can just
download the xf_dx.dll
package; otherwise, download the full Test 7 package.

Full Test 7 Package:
http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2
(1.7 MB)
Test 7 xf_dx.dll Package:
http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xf_dx.dll.tar.bz2 (43 kB)


Sources:
You can download the xf_dx.dll test 7 source if you
have Visual C++ 6 and
you feel like poking around:
http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xf_dx-src.zip (14 kB)


Screenshots, 1024x768:
1)  A local xterm:
http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/CygwinXFree86-ScreenShot-xterm.png
(160 kB)

2)  Remote gftp running on a GNU/Linux host with Gnome
installed:
http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/CygwinXFree86-ScreenShot-gftp.png
(153 kB)

Good luck, enjoy, and thanks for testing,

Harold

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Harold, others:

I don't like coming out of lurk mode just to beat a
dead horse but here are my test results on the latest
Win9x build.  Wish I had some better news.

>   Please post to the list if the test does not work
>   for you (include your OS, video card info, and
>   language).

No, test does not work for me, error messages similar
to others posted recently. :-(

I am using Toshiba 335CDT w/96M RAM.  C&T 65555 video
chipset with 2M RAM.  Running Win98SE and latest
Cygwin (clean install from RH/Cygnus FTP).  US English
language

I experimented with 24 bit, 16 bit, 8 bit color using
640x480 res and 800x600 res in Win98SE

I tried starting XWin with 100X100, 128X128, 320X240,
640X480 resolution with 24, 16, 8, 4, and 1 bit
settings.

I tried many combinations of the above seeking some
lowest common denominator mode that would work with no
success (such as 640x480x8 in Win98SE and starting
XWin with 128X128x8 mode).

Basically, I got the same error messages as everyone
else similar to

XWin window:

Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
Desired pwin->width = 00000080
Desired pwin->height = 00000080
Desired pwin->paddedWidth = 00000080
Desired pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000008

Fatal server error:
Couldn't add screen 0

Andrew Lynch
lynchaj at yahoo dot com



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