RE: Unable to run xfree86 on Windows NT 4.0 SP 6a?

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

XG86Config is not read by the Win32 version of x-server.
You need to adjust the resolution in startxwin.bat, that was 
discussed in mailing list and also on FAQ I think.

Also try installing xfree86-4-devel archive.

Suhaib

-----Original Message-----
From: Denis Haskin [mailto:denis.haskin@bigfoot.com]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 5:09 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
Cc: Robert Collins; Suhaib Siddiqi
Subject: Re: Unable to run xfree86 on Windows NT 4.0 SP 6a?


Robert Collins wrote:

> You need to update your video card driver - see the list archives.
>
> Rob

Several people have suggested that, thanks.

I have a FireGL 1 video card.  I've gone to the Diamond Multimedia web site
and gotten the most current NT driver.  Still no change in behavior.  The
web
site also had Linux/xfree86 drivers but I can't really use those, since
they're all Linux executables.  Or is there something I should do with
those?

I've gone through the list archives and nothing else seems obvious.  There
was some discussion of xf86config, but several messages indicate that
cygwin/xfree86 doesn't need that config file (I assume that DirectX is
hiding
all the gory details?).

I ran xf86config, put the resulting XF86Config file into /etc/X11, and still
the behavior is the same.

Hmm.  Any more suggetions?

Much thanks --

dwh



>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Denis Haskin" <denis.haskin@bigfoot.com>
> To: <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 7:36 AM
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >