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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 2
- Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 2
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:49:07 -0500
- Cc: XFree86/Cygwin Mailing list <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
One weird thing.
If I start X from a DOS prompt using starxwin.bat it works fine
but starting from a bash shell using startx script, I get
X with a black background, on which nothing can be displayed and mouse
cursor disappears if I move mosue over it.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Gottwald
> [mailto:Alexander.Gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de]
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 8:40 AM
> To: Harold Hunt
> Cc: XFree86/Cygwin Mailing list
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 2
>
>
> Hi Harold,
>
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, you wrote:
>
> > Alexander Gottwald pointed me in the direction using 'xdpyinfo' to
> > understand the visual formats being used by the X server.
> Combined with my
> > examination of the XonX folks code I was able to get colors
> displaying
> > correctly for some screen depths, namely 16 and 32, and
> possibly 24 bits per
> > pixel.
> in 24bit color depth, XWin crashs. I Attached the stackdump.
>
>
> > Please test the server and let me know how it works... I'd
> really like to
> > get some success mail before I go to sleep for the night.
> Don't bother
> > telling me about failure cases though, cause I'm having a
> beer. :) Well,
> > actually I do want to know about the failure cases, but
> tell me tomorrow :)
> >
> I tested 16bit color depth, and it looks great. Good work Harold!
>
> I will later take a more complete test series on my workstation.
>
> cu
> ago
> --
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>
>