RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 5

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> Oh, you embarrass me ;-)
> 
> My machine is equipped with 2.5MB Video RAM (Yes I know, it's 
> from the stone
> age!!)
> I think also my 64 MB of RAM could be a player here. Perhaps 
> I even should
> give up trying...
> 

Refresh my memory, which operating system?  


> Do you think the Video memory might be the reason here?

I doubt it.  On a Compaq Presario with 2MB video memory it runs fine,
but I have 128 MB of SDRAM.  
I think it is your 64 MB RAM depending upon which Windows version.  If
you are using ME/2000 then you are way below the limit.  ME/2000 will chew
64 MB alone and will still be hungry to chew as much as you can give it.
If you are on NT 4.0 or 2000, and have enough disk space, try creating a big
page file, but it might not help in this case.

Suhaib

> 
> /Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suhaib Siddiqi [mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 4:21 PM
> To: 'Lundh Christian'; CygX (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 5
> 
> 
> 
> How much video memory do you have?  Now a days 
> Windows/ME/2000 will drink it
> alone and
> leave nothing available to your applications.  Both are worst 
> memory drainer
> then
> Win 9x/Nt used to be.  ME/2000 love to consume memory like a 
> fish drinks
> water.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lundh Christian [mailto:Christian.Lundh@volvo.com]
> > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 10:08 AM
> > To: CygX (E-mail)
> > Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 5
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I still can't get it to work, but I think Harold made it 
> > clear to me why it
> > doesnt work. When I try to run the server now, I get an error 
> > message saying
> > that it cant allocate bitmapsomething, and then a nice little 
> > message that
> > explains that one reason it might not work is that there just 
> > isn't enough
> > free memory. 
> > 
> > That explains it all to me. I know I'm on the memory limit to 
> > even be able
> > to use my machine at all.
> > 
> > Have you any idea how much memory is required Harold?
> > 
> > Great job! I guess I have to hunt down my ITSD department 
> for a memory
> > upgrade!
> > 
> > Thanks a million for your efforts!
> > 
> > /Christian Lundh
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 3:44 AM
> > To: Cygx (E-mail)
> > Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 5
> > 
> > 
> > Test 5 has been uploaded to:
> > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/shadow/
> > 
> > Screen bitfield formats are now automatically detected for 
> > 15, 16, 24, and
> > 32 bits per pixel.  I'm not sure if 24 bpp or 15 bpp works 
> > though, cause my
> > display can only do 16 and 32 bpp; 16 and 32 bpp have been 
> > tested on my
> > machine.  This release has much better chances of working on 
> > those problem
> > machines that are out there, so please give it a try.
> > 
> > Those of you running at 8 bits per pixel will also notice 
> that I have
> > started working on supporting 8 bits.  The server will 
> > currently startup in
> > 8 bits per pixel, but it doesn't have the correct colormap 
> > yet, so colors
> > are mostly black with some pink and yellow thrown in for fun :)
> > 
> > Enjoy,
> > 
> > Harold L Hunt
> > 
>