Re: A little driver-specific tip

["John Fortin" <fortinj at attglobal dot net>]

Most of this stuff is available via DirectX function call.  Video modes,
pixel depth, etc.. This is what makes a driver compatible for DirectX

John Fortin


----- Original Message -----
From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
To: "'Robert Collins'" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>; "Suhaib Siddiqi"
<ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>; <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 8:22 AM
Subject: RE: A little driver-specific tip


> Oh yeah, sure a good idea.  We do have one such a utility for ntuf_xf.dll.
> The source code is in "drivers" directory.  Anyone willing to extend it?
> BTW: Many Video drivers specs (resolution and DirectX version etc) can be
> queried through control panel-->display.  I know nVidia comes with a
utility
> which you can use to explore the the specs of video drivers.  If a user's
> vendor supplied
> video driver has such a utility, he can use it.. of course it won't
> create startxwin.bat.
>
> Suhaib
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 7:17 AM
> > To: Suhaib Siddiqi; cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: A little driver-specific tip
> >
> >
> > Let me dream up some work for those in this group coding on xfree86 :]
> >
> > What would be useful would be a utility to extract the available modes
> > from directX, set a reasonable default and create a xf86config(for
> > launching from cygwin) & startxwin.bat (for launching from cmd.exe)
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
> > To: <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:02 PM
> > Subject: RE: A little driver-specific tip
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I possibly could never write a startxwin.bat file for every
> > video card
> > out
> > > in the
> > > universe.  Consider startxwin.bat as a sample and adjust resolution
> > (and
> > > other parameters)
> > > per your video card.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Suhaib
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Gary [mailto:gary@dls.net]
> > > > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 9:25 PM
> > > > To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> > > > Subject: A little driver-specific tip
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi guys,
> > > >
> > > > I just wanted to let you know that people using Oxygen
> > > > VX1-1600SW cards need
> > > > to set their resolution in the startxwin.bat file to
> > > > 1600x1024x16; as the
> > > > card does not support other resolutions, and will cause X to
> > > > terminate with
> > > > DirectX errors in the default configuration.
> > > >
> > > > Hope this helps someone out there :)
> > > >
> > > > -Gary
> > > >
> > >
> >