Re: Slashdotting

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Harold Hunt wrote:

> We have been Slashdotted, with a post that mentions that we are now easily
> installable via Cygwin's setup.exe:
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And here's a comment on setup.exe:


"Beats the crud outa MSI packages, if just for how well it keeps the 
user informed of what is going on."

Way to go, Robert (and others)!  (In fairness, there were a few 
dissenting opinions about setup... <g>)

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Hey, cool! This is the first time I've seen the -engine switches 
actually defined!  Thanks, Harold:

Your problem with NetMeeting is that NetMeeting and Cygwin/XFree86 are 
both using DirectDraw. Apparently only one application is allowed to use 
a certain feature of DirectDraw at a time. By default Cygwin/XFree86 is 
using the DirectDraw Non-Locking engine, which you could specify with 
`-engine 4'; non-locking means that we call malloc () ourselves for the 
offscreen framebuffer, rather than letting DirectDraw allocate the 
memory for us. You can try passing `-engine 2' for DirectDraw with 
DirectDraw allocated surface memory, or `-engine 1' which uses GDI DIBs 
with no DirectDraw at all.

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