Re: XWin fails to render KDE properly

["CB Genrich" <cbgenrich at yahoo dot com>]

What is the state of Xinerama on Cygwin?

Could the dual-head nature of this setup be the problem?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "CB Genrich" <cbgenrich@yahoo.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 1:51 AM
Subject: XWin fails to render KDE properly


> I have this working on a similar XP box across the room.
> But can't get it to work on this XP box.
>  
> This one has an NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/400 and also an
> NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/100.  Two display adapters, two
> monitors.
>  
> XWin gets and renders a Linux XDM login screen properly.
>  
> After login, the KDE splash screen isn't properly rendered,
> and so it goes for much of KDE.
>  
> We're talking KDE 3.0.  The splash screen sequences
> through a half dozen little icons and writes a text description
> at the bottom of the splash screen as it progresses.
>  
> The problem is first observed in that the icons are not shown
> and the text messages over-write one another without erasing
> the previous ones.  The KDE desktop is rendered but almost
> no icons are shown.  etc.
>  
> The working XP box had the same problem and it was resolved
> when I went to XWin -fullscreen -depth 24 (as I recall).
>  
> Can someone suggest a path for me to take to get this
> working?
>  
> -CB-  cbgenrich@yahoo.com