RE: Q: Cygwin/Xfree is running very slow... any hints ?

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Brian,

No problem.  Hey, the funny thing is that I didn't know what OS he was
running either.  As I was writing, I glanced back to his original message
and saw W2K... kinda weird that we both missed that on our first read.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Brian Genisio
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 12:18 PM
> To: Harold Hunt; Jean-Marc Paulin; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Q: Cygwin/Xfree is running very slow... any hints ?
>
>
> Appologies... This is something I knew, but worded my statement
> wrong.  At the
> time, I did not know the OS, or how he was starting the X server
> (could have
> been command line)... My statement was more to explain that the -engine 1
> option should not have been used.... One of those "I knew what I meant"
> statements...
>
> Anyways,  sorry... not good at getting my point across.
> B
>
>
> --- Harold Hunt <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote:
> > Brian,
> >
> > > Make sure you are running engine 4.
> >
> > That is somewhat misleading advice.  There is code in the server that
> > detects which engines types are supported.  Engine 4, the best
> performing
> > engine, is used whenever it is supported.  Thus, to tell the user to use
> > engine 4 is likely to just send them on a wild goose chase.
> Jean-Marc has
> > Windows 2000 which means that DirectX 4+ is installed, so XWin
> will always
> > use engine 4 on his system.
> >
> > Harold
> >
>
>
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