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RE: Unable to run xfree86 on Windows NT 4.0 SP 6a?
- To: cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: Unable to run xfree86 on Windows NT 4.0 SP 6a?
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:44:59 -0500
I would really advice to install complete set of XFree86. On a Linux
machine you also need to install everything, except a few x clients.
It seems to be rgb.txt issue or the screen resolution. Please check mail
archive. It had been discussed several times.
Suhaib
-----Original Message-----
From: Denis Haskin [mailto:denis.haskin@bigfoot.com]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 3:36 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Unable to run xfree86 on Windows NT 4.0 SP 6a?
I'm unable to successfully run xfree86 on a Windows NT system, although
the documentation indicates I should be able to do this.
The system has Windows NT 4.0 workstation, service pack 6a (which is
supposed to have DirectX 3.0).
I downloaded & installed cygwin 1.1.7 and xfree86 4.0 (I downloaded the
minimal set of xc-4-binaries, according to the doc). Did the setup as
the doc says.
However, when I attempt to run startxwin.bat, this happens:
In the window where XWin is running, the following appears:
Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
pwin->width = 00000320
pwin->height = 00000258
pwin->paddedWidth = 00000640
pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000010
calling winAllocateFramebufferMemory
and then a dialog box appears with
Direct Draw Init Failed: Error = 88760078 (uknown error)
Does xfree86 require a later DirectX version? As far as I can tell 3.0
is the latest one available for NT.
Much thanks,
Denis Haskin