RE: XFree on Win9x, again

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

> Hello,
> 
> Three months ago I installed Cygwin114 and Xfree (July 27 
> distribution)
> on my notebook with Win98. I got also a demo version of the XWin-Pro
> commercial X-server from Labtam. The Labtam team said that their
> X-server should work fine with Win98 on my computer (of course they
> could hardly say no). In fact it does, and my X11 codes (a 
> personal Unix
> code and OpenDX) are working fine with Cygwin, but Win98 becomes very
> unstable after two or three normal runs : almost each time 
> after having
> exited X11, the computer crashes when trying to run some 
> Win98 programs
> or simply when trying to shutdown.
> 
> I followed the discussion on the mailing list about Xfree on Win98. I
> understand that Win98 is mixing 16 bits and 32 bits software but I am
> not sure to have a clear view of the problem. Could anyone tell me if
> this problem concerns only the Xfree X-servers, or does it 
> concern also
> all the X11 binaries and dll's of the Xfree distribution ?
> 
> If my X-server is OK, could the Win98 instabilities come from the X11
> binaries and dll's linked to my codes ?


NO!!!

> 
> I am also wondering  if my computer has enough resources (only 64 Mb
> memory). Any idea about some tests to find the source of the Win98
> instability would be welcome. I am also looking for some simple exec's
> just to test the Labtam X-server, with or without Cygwin.

there are bunch of them as xclients, e.g xclock, and oclock etc.

Suhaib

> 
> Best regards,
> 
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