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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 4
- To: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 4
- From: "Andreas Eibach" <a dot eibach at gmx dot net>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:01:33 +0200
- Cc: <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- References: <000301c0b31b$3704e350$2fab0a23@huntharo>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo@msu.edu>
To: "Cygx (E-mail)" <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 11:58 PM
Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 4
> Failure to allocate a device independent bitmap in Shadow Framebuffer Test
> server has nothing to do with video drivers. It most likely has to do
with
> a lack of available memory or a particular bitfield format not being
> supported by the running version of Windows.
Out of curiosity, Harold:
You said in one of the older posts that there won't ever be a stable
framebuffer-based X server for W9x/Me, right?
What is (technically, that is) the difference between a shadow-framebuffer X
server like this and your old 'Test 7'`?
Andreas