XWin.exe.stackdump error

[Harold L Hunt]

Cygwin/XFree86 has no video card dependencies; understand that, it's important.

The problem this user is reporting is due to running in 8 bits per pixel mode,
which is currently not supported and often results in an integer divide by zero
error.

Harold

>
> Is it latest XWin.exe?
>
> > >Arithmetic exception (core dumped)
>
> huh? interesting :-)
> Which video card?
>
> Suhaib
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Faylor [ mailto:cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com ]
> > Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 12:51 AM
> > To: Ravi
> > Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: XWin.exe.stackdump error
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:07:30PM +0530, Ravi wrote:
> > >I have instaled Cygwin on Windows 2000.
> > >
> > >When i execute the following this is the error. I am also
> > attaching the XWin.exe.
> > >
> > >administrator@RAVI-PC /
> > >$ /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin.exe -screen 0 800x600x8 -whitepixel
> > 255 -blackpixel 0
> > >_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> > >winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
> > >winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> > >winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
> > >winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
> > >winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000000f
> > >winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> > >winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 800
> > height 600
> > >winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 00000000 00000000
> > 00000000 RGB 0 d 8
> > >winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Calling miSetVisualTypesAndMasks
> > >winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Returning
> > >      0 [main] XWin 1632 handle_exceptions: Exception:
> > STATUS_INTEGER_DIVIDE_BY_
> > >ZERO
> > >   1440 [main] XWin 1632 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to
> > XWin.exe.stackdump
> > >Arithmetic exception (core dumped)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Please let me know the solution...
> >
> > One step towards finding the solution will be to use the
> > correct mailing list.
> >
> > cgf
> >
>