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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No Direct Input Test (Win9x & NT/2000)
- To: <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No Direct Input Test (Win9x & NT/2000)
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 08:02:40 -0500
It won't work on my nVidia GeForce2 GTS card, no matter
which depth I set. The drivers are DirectX 7.0a.
Harold, could you send your chamges to dlls, to me, please? I want
to look at it.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: j.j.ita@siep.shell.com [mailto:j.j.ita@siep.shell.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 7:37 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No Direct Input Test (Win9x &
> NT/2000)
>
>
> Harold,
> Like Suhaib, I did not know that the color depth had to
> be 8 bits.
> On a Windows NT 4.0 (SP5) machine, I set my display to have and 8 bit
> color depth. I then executed the bat file:
>
> @echo off
> SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin;C:\cygwin\bin
> XWin -screen 0 128x128x8 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
>
> and got:
>
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> Desired pwin->width = 00000080
> Desired pwin->height = 00000080
> Desired pwin->paddedWidth = 00000080
> Desired pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000008
>
> Fatal server error:
> Couldn't add screen 0
>
> Joel Ita
>