RE: XWin on Win95

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> Okay, I copied rgb.txt from /usr/lib/X11/lib/rgb.txt into the specified
> path. That line has no gone the rest are the same.


The XWin.exe is a X11R6 based X-server compiled using Cygwin.  Therefore,
if you have Cygwin in c:\cygwin installed
your X-server should be installed in

c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6

for Cygwin v 1.1.x \cygwin\usr is mounted at /usr.

It was discussed a couple of days ago.

I think that was your problem on Win95 too.  Server was unable to
get RGB colors therefore returning directx unknown errors.

>
> I noticed that bitsPerPixel was 10 (=16?) when I asked for 1024x768x8.
> This got me wondering and I played around with the command line. What
> does the '-screen 8' option do?

You can type xwin -help

It will print all the command line options and their usage.

I put '-screen 0' thinking that it might
> mean 'localhost:0'

That is -display :0 nopt -screen

>and a X hatched display filled my whole screen. This
> is more than I've seen before, but my PC then just locked up. I thought
> I'd ask what the screen option does, before I play around any more....

command line options with xwin -help.  They are standard command line
options
for any Unices X-server, like XFree86.


Suhaib


>
> Nick.
>
> Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>
> > >
> > > scheduling timer: Invalid argument
> > > Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
> >
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ what is install PATH?  X needs it and should
> > find it or will crash on you.
> >
> > > _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> > > pwin->width = 00000500
> > > pwin->height = 00000400
> > > pwin->paddedWidth = 00000a00
> > > pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000010
> > > calling winAllocateFramebufferMemory
> > >
> > > Then dialog box: "Direct Draw Init Failed     Error =
> > > 88760078(unknown error)"