RE: trouble starting up xfree

["Scott Hughes" <shughes at dalsemi dot com>]

Sorry..  I didn't mean to be so vague, I swear. :)

I'm running Win2k pro w/ no service packs, latest net release of Cygwin
v1.1.8, and I've got an S3 Savage4 video card (or at least, that's the name
Win2k calls it)...

Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Robert
> Collins
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 4:46 PM
> To: Scott Hughes; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: trouble starting up xfree
>
>
> What OS are you running? What service pack? What is your video
> hardware? What version of cygwin do you have installed?
>
> Rob
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Hughes" <shughes@dalsemi.com>
> To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 9:30 AM
> Subject: trouble starting up xfree
>
>
> > I've gone through the how-to twice already, downloading the files and
> > extracting them in the root folder.  Executing startxwin.bat
> gives me a "Bad
> > Creation Failed" dialog box after resizing my screen. After
> clicking okay, I
> > get a "DirectDrawInit failed"...  I'm 99.999% sure that I have
> DirectDraw
> > installed, but I'm not sure how to check.  Is there anything
> else I could be
> > missing?
> >
> > Thanks in advance..
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > --
> > Scott Hughes - shughes@dalsemi.com
> > Engineer, Auto Information
> > Dallas Semiconductor
> >
> >