RE: trouble starting up xfree

["Scott Hughes" <shughes at dalsemi dot com>]

While double-checking on Windows update site, contemplating whether or not I
should install a service pack, I noticed an updated version of my video
driver in the list.  I download, install it, and reboot...  and it all
works! ;) Guess myriad, random, buggy video drivers are hard to code around.

Thanks for all your time..  And for the developers who worked on this,
THANKS!  This is a _very_ cool project..

Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Scott Hughes
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 4:59 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: trouble starting up xfree
>
>
> Sorry..  I didn't mean to be so vague, I swear. :)
>
> I'm running Win2k pro w/ no service packs, latest net release of Cygwin
> v1.1.8, and I've got an S3 Savage4 video card (or at least,
> that's the name
> Win2k calls it)...
>
> Scott
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Robert
> > Collins
> > Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 4:46 PM
> > To: Scott Hughes; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: trouble starting up xfree
> >
> >
> > What OS are you running? What service pack? What is your video
> > hardware? What version of cygwin do you have installed?
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Scott Hughes" <shughes@dalsemi.com>
> > To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 9:30 AM
> > Subject: trouble starting up xfree
> >
> >
> > > I've gone through the how-to twice already, downloading the files and
> > > extracting them in the root folder.  Executing startxwin.bat
> > gives me a "Bad
> > > Creation Failed" dialog box after resizing my screen. After
> > clicking okay, I
> > > get a "DirectDrawInit failed"...  I'm 99.999% sure that I have
> > DirectDraw
> > > installed, but I'm not sure how to check.  Is there anything
> > else I could be
> > > missing?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance..
> > >
> > > Scott
> > >
> > > --
> > > Scott Hughes - shughes@dalsemi.com
> > > Engineer, Auto Information
> > > Dallas Semiconductor
> > >
> > >