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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 4
- To: cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 4
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:04:48 -0500
Are you starting from a bash shell usng startx script? If so, check mail
archive
i posted a problem this morning. Use startxwin.bat from DOS.
you can get xfree86-4.0.3-XWin.tar.bz2 from Cygwin/Xfree86 FTP server. it
has a customize starxwin.bat file
plus Harold executable.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Jacobson [mailto:teridon@erols.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 4:00 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 4
>
>
>
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> >
> >Try reducing the resolution.... You are starting at
> 1024x740, reduce it to
> >800x600
> >and see if it works. You video card driver is having problems with
> >framebuffer.
> >
> >Suhaib
> >
>
> Still no good. (at least with 800x600) And the STATUS..
> error comes back.
>
> Hmm... I'll try reducing the res of the Windows desktop first.
>
> 03:39pm administrator /usr/X11R6/bin
> # startx -- -screen 0 800x600x16
>
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winCreateB... () - WorkArea width 1024 height 740
> winCreateB... () - Adjusted width: 800 height: 600
> winCreateB... () - WindowClient width 800 height 600
> winScreenInit () - Allocating shadow fb failed
> error opening security policy file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> 0 [main] X 1244 handle_exceptions: Exception:
> STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
> 1924 [main] X 1244 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to
> XWin.exe.shadow.stackdump
> giving up.
> ./xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect
> to X server
> ./xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
>
> 03:39pm administrator /usr/X11R6/bin
> # XWin.exe
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
>
> 03:40pm administrator /usr/X11R6/bin
> # Xwin -screen 0 800x600x16
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winCreateB... () - WorkArea width 1024 height 740
> winCreateB... () - Adjusted width: 800 height: 600
> winCreateB... () - WindowClient width 800 height 600
> winScreenInit () - Allocating shadow fb failed
> error opening security policy file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> 0 [main] Xwin 964 handle_exceptions: Exception:
> STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
> 4595 [main] Xwin 964 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to
> XWin.exe.shadow.stackdump
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> 03:40pm administrator /usr/X11R6/bin
> # Xwin -screen 0 800x600x24
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winCreateB... () - WorkArea width 1024 height 740
> winCreateB... () - Adjusted width: 800 height: 600
> winCreateB... () - WindowClient width 800 height 600
> winScreenInit () - Allocating shadow fb failed
> error opening security policy file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> 0 [main] Xwin 1520 handle_exceptions: Exception:
> STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
> 4023 [main] Xwin 1520 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to
> XWin.exe.shadow.stackdump
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> --
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> Robert Jacobson teridon@erols.com
> BS, Aeronautical Engineering Univ. of Md., College Park
> Flight Ops. Team - SOlar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
>