startxwin.bat fails

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

One of the use emailed me private a Thank note. I do not remember who was he
He changed Windows display to 16 bit and started
Xwin with 16 bps.  It wroks for him.

Suhaib


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [ mailto:huntharo@msu.edu ] 
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 2:53 PM
> To: Pierre A. Humblet; Richard_Larrabee@amsinc.com
> Cc: cygx
> Subject: RE: startxwin.bat fails
> 
> 
> > Wouldn't it be more practical to have xwin output
> > an information message when the display depth cannot
> > be handled, rather than having to answer incessantly
> > the same question?
> 
> I had thought about the same thing, just haven't had time to 
> get to it yet.
> :)
> 
> I was going to write such a patch a couple days ago but then 
> the FAQ stuff took center stage.
> 
> However, I see something interesting about this user's error message:
> > > winInitVisualsShadowDD () - Masks: 00000000 00000000 
> 00000000 bpRGB: 
> > > 0
> 
> Normally I know that a user is running Windows at 8 bits per 
> pixel because the bpRGB field gets set to 8 when we query 
> DirectDraw for the current display mode.  However, this 
> user's bpRGB is 0, which I haven't seen before. Perhaps there 
> is something else going on with this particular user's problem...
> 
> Harold
>