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Re: XFree86 4.2.0 under Cygwin on Win98 w/ i810 won't display CDEfro m HPUX
- From: Ian Burrell <iburrell at znark dot com>
- To: Michael Reaser <michaelr at sedata dot com>
- Cc: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:19:10 -0700
- Subject: Re: XFree86 4.2.0 under Cygwin on Win98 w/ i810 won't display CDEfro m HPUX
- References: <1E5BB4E16573714B9A0CB774B2AB0CC6164691@mailserver.sedata.com>
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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