RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 4

[j dot j dot ita at siep dot shell dot com]

Harold,
	 I downloaded the newest drivers as you suggested and used your 
new Test 4 suite. Same problem occurs. One thing I did find in the 
readme for the new driver was:

b)	Windowed Mode (DirectX plays back in a window). The Jeronimo 
	2000 card supports this mode on the primary monitor without 
	errors. The Jeronimo 2000 supports this mode across multiple 
	monitors as long as the DirectX application writes to 
	off-screen memory rather than writing data directly to the 
	screen.

Do you know what mode you write in (off-screen or direct)? This may be 
at the root of my problem. I tried running in single screen mode but 
obviously my graphics card is not working error free as advertised. 
Surprise, surprise.

Joel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold@compasstechnologies.com
> [mailto:Harold@compasstechnologies.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 2:09 PM
> To: Ita, Joel J.J.
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 3
> 
> 
> Joel,
> 
> Hmm... I query DirectDraw for overlay support and for the 
> amount of free
> video memory, so I kinda just have to go with what it tells 
> me.  Perhaps
> Appian has released new drivers for your video card?
> 
> Thanks for the detailed report,
> 
> Harold
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: j.j.ita@siep.shell.com [mailto:j.j.ita@siep.shell.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 3:11 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 3
> 
> 
> Harold,
> 	I am running Windows NT 4.0 (SP5) with an Appian Jeronimo 2000 
> Graphics card with the Permida3 chipset and 16 Mb of video 
> memory. When 
> I run the following bat file:
> 
> @echo off
> SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin;C:\cygwin\bin
> XWin -screen 0 128x128x8 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
> 
> In the MS DOS prompt window I start it from, I see:
> 
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>startxserver
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> Desired Width: 128, Height: 128, Depth: 8
> xf_dx.dll: Process attach
> enable_xf_dx: LoadLibrary success
> xf_dx.dll: AdjustVideoMode entered
> 
> An error message window pops up stating:
> 
> Requested overlay size too large for available video memory, trimming 
> overlay size.
> Error = 00000000(unknown error)
> 
> I hit OK and then in the DOS window:
> 
> Adjusted Width: 0, Height: 0, Depth: 8
> xf_dx.dll: winDXAllocateFramebufferMemory entered
> 
> Another Error window pops up:
> 
> Overlays not supported by hardware, exiting
> Error = 00000000(unknown error)
> 
> I hit OK and another error window appears:
> 
> Direct Draw Init Failed
> Error = 00000000(unknown error)
> 
> I hit OK and then in the DOS window I see:
> 
> xf_dx.dll: Process detach
> 
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>
> 
> 
> I realize that their are other cards have that have more video memory 
> available, but I think 16 MB is respectable. I also checked Appians 
> webpage and they state that this card supports video overlay. 
> This may 
> be different than the overlay your program refers to, but I highly 
> doubt this high end card does not support overlays. Lastly, the old 
> full screen xserver ran just fine on this machine. Hope this 
> helps some.
> 
> Joel Ita 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Harold@compasstechnologies.com
> > [mailto:Harold@compasstechnologies.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 12:04 AM
> > To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 3
> > 
> > 
> > There seems to be problems loading the xf_dx.dll library, 
> > even though the
> > file exists; I cannot see a relation between my 
> modifications and the
> > failure of the library to load, so I added a few debugging 
> > messages around
> > the loading of the library to assist in debugging.
> > 
> > The new tarball is once again available from:
> > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2
> > 
> > Once again, the installation instructions are:
> > cp OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2 /usr/X11R6/bin
> > cd /usr/X11R6/bin
> > mv XWin.exe XWin.orig.exe
> > mv xf_dx.dll xf_dx.orig.dll
> > bunzip2 OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2
> > tar -xf OverlayAndNoDITest.tar
> > 
> > Suhaib, John Fortin, and I removed recognized and removed 
> > several deprecated
> > files from the xf_dx.dll source package; these files were 
> > being compiled in
> > and removing them shaved 40 kB off the size of the compiled 
> > xf_dx.dll file.
> > Special thanks to them for getting me to finally look into 
> > removing some
> > useless files.  Alas, adding a few debugging messages caused 
> > the size to go
> > up 8kB, so the total shrink for this release of xf_dx.dll is 32 kB.
> > 
> > I'm starting to think that there might be a problem in the 
> > way that I am
> > tarballing the EXE and the DLL or in the instructions that I 
> > specify for
> > untarballing them; I may be causing a problem with the 
> xf_dx.dll being
> > inaccessible to certain users, or, perhaps some versions of 
> > Windows need to
> > have the executable attribute set on the DLL.  Pipe up if 
> you have any
> > pointers or solutions.
> > 
> > I test each release on a Windows 2000 machine and a Windows 
> 98 machine
> > before I post them; I don't have an NT 4 SP6 machine 
> available, so I'd
> > appreciate it if someone could give a quick works/doesn't 
> > work response for
> > that platform.
> > 
> > Enjoy,
> > 
> > Harold
> > 
>