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Re: trouble starting up xfree
- To: "Scott Hughes" <shughes at dalsemi dot com>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: trouble starting up xfree
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 09:46:11 +1100
- References: <DFEOLJFAFODEBOGOAOOHKEIDCCAA.shughes@dalsemi.com>
What OS are you running? What service pack? What is your video hardware? What version of cygwin do you have installed?
Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Hughes" <shughes@dalsemi.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 9:30 AM
Subject: trouble starting up xfree
> I've gone through the how-to twice already, downloading the files and
> extracting them in the root folder. Executing startxwin.bat gives me a "Bad
> Creation Failed" dialog box after resizing my screen. After clicking okay, I
> get a "DirectDrawInit failed"... I'm 99.999% sure that I have DirectDraw
> installed, but I'm not sure how to check. Is there anything else I could be
> missing?
>
> Thanks in advance..
>
> Scott
>
> --
> Scott Hughes - shughes@dalsemi.com
> Engineer, Auto Information
> Dallas Semiconductor
>
>