RE: Q: Cygwin/Xfree is running very slow... any hints ?

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Brian,

Oops... there wasn't a note about W2K in the original message... I just saw
it there even though it wasn't :)

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Harold Hunt
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 1:52 PM
> To: Brian Genisio; Jean-Marc Paulin; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Q: Cygwin/Xfree is running very slow... any hints ?
>
>
> Brian,
>
> No problem.  Hey, the funny thing is that I didn't know what OS he was
> running either.  As I was writing, I glanced back to his original message
> and saw W2K... kinda weird that we both missed that on our first read.
>
> Harold
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Brian Genisio
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 12:18 PM
> > To: Harold Hunt; Jean-Marc Paulin; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > Subject: RE: Q: Cygwin/Xfree is running very slow... any hints ?
> >
> >
> > Appologies... This is something I knew, but worded my statement
> > wrong.  At the
> > time, I did not know the OS, or how he was starting the X server
> > (could have
> > been command line)... My statement was more to explain that the
> -engine 1
> > option should not have been used.... One of those "I knew what I meant"
> > statements...
> >
> > Anyways,  sorry... not good at getting my point across.
> > B
> >
> >
> > --- Harold Hunt <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote:
> > > Brian,
> > >
> > > > Make sure you are running engine 4.
> > >
> > > That is somewhat misleading advice.  There is code in the server that
> > > detects which engines types are supported.  Engine 4, the best
> > performing
> > > engine, is used whenever it is supported.  Thus, to tell the
> user to use
> > > engine 4 is likely to just send them on a wild goose chase.
> > Jean-Marc has
> > > Windows 2000 which means that DirectX 4+ is installed, so XWin
> > will always
> > > use engine 4 on his system.
> > >
> > > Harold
> > >
> >
> >
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