Cygwin/XFree86 on win95/98

Suhaib Siddiqi ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Tue May 8 04:40:00 GMT 2001


> Thanks for the pointer. After this, I checked my win98 color 
> settings. It 
> was set to 8 bit color. I was getting stackdump when I tried 
> to start XWin 
> in 16 bit color (while win98 was in 8 bit color). When I 
> corrected my win98 
> to 16 bit color, it started working fine in windowed mode.
> 
> BTW, XDMCP error on win95 is still there.


Are you behind a firewall or VPN, as discussed in FAQ?

Suhaib

> 
> Thanks,
> Muthu
> 
> 
> >From: Andrew Markebo <flognat@flognat.myip.org>
> >To: "Muthukumar G" <kmuthu@hotmail.com>
> >CC: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> >Subject: Re: Cygwin/XFree86 on win95/98
> >Date: 05 May 2001 19:52:26 +0200
> >
> >Hmm could it be a potential problem with number of colors, did Xwin
> >if I recall right, xwin had problems with 24 bit colors, 16 and 32
> >worked fine...
> >
> >         /Andy
> >
> >/ "Muthukumar G" <kmuthu@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >| Hi,
> >|
> >|     That was real quick :-)
> >|
> >| 1. Yes, I did use -from & -query
> >|
> >| 2. On Win98 (working one):
> >| Xwin -ac -screen 0 1024x768x16 -fullscreen -whitepixel 255 
> -blackpixel
> >| 0 -engine 4
> >|
> >| (I am yet to get this mail from the mailing list; I got 
> this from the
> >| archive)
> >|
> >| Thanks,
> >| Muthu
> >|
> >| Suhaib's reply to my post:
> >| --------------------------
> >| did you use -from <ip address of your host> -query <ip address of
> >| remote host>?
> >|
> >| On WIn98 what resolution are you using? Can you post? i.e. -screen
> >| 1024x687x32 for example...
> >|
> >| Suhaib
> >| --------------------------
> >|
> >| 
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