RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 7

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

 OK, thanks.  I just wanted to let you.  

I was also testing SI OpenGL test programs to test colors display for OpenGL
applications.  Good news it passed all the tests.  i will email you screen
capture of your server with multiple test applications from SGI openGL SI
open.  Colors look great now.

Suhaib



-----Original Message-----
From: Harold Hunt
To: 'Suhaib Siddiqi'
Cc: Cygx (E-mail)
Sent: 3/25/2001 6:14 PM
Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 7

If you are running Windows at any other depth than 16, then yes, it
should
crash.

I just discovered the root of the problem, although the fix will not be
in
my next release, which is coming up shortly.

Basically, it breaks down like this:
InitOutput () currently initializes the pixmap formats.
InitOutput uses whatever depth was passed on the command line to
inititialize the pixmap formats.
If you pass the wrong depth, you get the wrong pixmap formats.
Later on, in winScreenInit, I correct the depth, but it is too late
because
the pixmap formats are still incorrect.

I'll fix that sometime later this week.

Harold

-----Original Message-----
From: Suhaib Siddiqi [mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 6:05 PM
To: 'Harold Hunt '
Cc: 'cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com'
Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 7


 Harold

with the following options:

start XWin -screen 0 1280x1024x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0 -engine
3

server crashes immediately.  It is on Win2K nVidia GeForce2 Ultra with
128
MB video RAM.

E:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by
peer)
on X
 server "127.0.0.1:0.0"
      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server
"127.0.0.1:0.0"
      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server
"127.0.0.1:0.0"
      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.


With same resolution options I can run my win32-x11.  It even works
great
with 1280x1024x32.


Suhaib
-----Original Message-----
From: Harold Hunt
To: 'Suhaib Siddiqi'
Sent: 3/25/2001 12:55 PM
Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 7

Well, I used to be a Gnome advocate, but I really like to push KDE now,
so
if you don't mind :)

Using my screenshot is fine by me.

I'll probably need a few weeks, or up to a month to reach the patch
submission point, as I want to fix some things and give the code time to
be
tested, etc.

I'll be sure to synchronize any patching with you.

Hey, you're always thanking me for working on the server, but I have to
give
you a huge thanks for keeping the libraries and the whole tree
compiling.
That is a ton of work!

Is the goal of Win32-X11 to provide a server that not only compiles with
VC++, but also to provide a server that can be installed independently
of
Cygwin?  One of my slightly longer range goals is to provide a server
that
is compiled with Cygwin's gcc, but that runs without Cygwin... that will
really simplify installation for 95% of users out there, thus increasing
usage.

Oh, have you tried Test 7?  What do you think?  Are you seeing that
engine 3
has the best performance, even better than engine 4?

Harold