Re: XFree86/Cygwin under win4lin (fwd)

[Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 14:36:19 -0700
From: Christopher Stone <tkmame@retrogames.com>
To: Alexander Gottwald <Alexander.Gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Subject: Re: XFree86/Cygwin under win4lin

On Thursday 10 May 2001 02:01 pm, you wrote:
> Please try the following lines:
> XWin :2 -screen 0 800x600x16 -engine 1
> XWin :2 -screen 0 800x600x16 -engine 2
> XWin :2 -screen 0 800x600x16 -engine 4
>
> Since there is a huge emulation layer between linux and win4lin, some of
> the graphic features from NT or 9x (don't know what win4lin claims to be)
> may not be available.

Hi,

I tried all of these and they all give the same error as before :(

winFinishScreenInitFB () - Could not allocate frame buffer

Fatal server error:
Couldn't add screen 0

win4lin only runs win 9x (no NT support).  And ive got win95 installed under 
win4lin.

Thanks again for trying to help..I have a feeling we have exhausted all 
options :(   win4lin 3 is coming out soon and I will get a free upgrade, I 
can try again with win4lin 3.0 and let you know if its any better...

If you like, I can try compiling a debug version of cygwin-X and getting 
debug info if you need...id be willing to help all I can to get it working 
for win4lin...it may take me some time, but just let me know...or if you got 
another suggestion to try let me know also.

Thanks again,
Chris