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Re: XFree86 4.2.0 under Cygwin on Win98 w/ i810 won't display CDEfro m HPUX


Michael Reaser wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, the PC has an i810, so XWin is giving me fits.  It works
> fine from another PC without the Intel 810 chipset, and works right 
> if I just invoke it from the Bash shell using 
> 

The chipset shouldn't matter one bit. XWin doesn't use the XFree86 video 
drivers.

> 
> I've searched the XFree86 archives, and see a lot of references to getting 
> a copy of agpgart.o and compiling it into your kernel to get an i810 to
> play nicely.  Well, (a) I really don't want to have to re-compile Cygwin
> for Win98 if someone else already has, (b) I have no idea where to
> get a copy of agpgart.o which would work in that instance, anyway, and 
> (c) since the HP can communicate to XFree86 just fine in "normal"
> mode, I can't believe this is because of a driver issue.
> 
> Can anyone give me any pointers on what I should do to get XFree86
> on an i810 chipset to give me an xdm-based login from another system?
> And/or tell me what further information I should have included in my
> message that y'all expect?
> 

The first thing to check is that the server works locally. The second 
thing to check is that you can connect from the remote machine without 
XDMCP.

  - Ian

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