RE: Great work on XF86, and 2 questions

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

 Which version of OpenDX?  I give out two via opendx.org
one copiled with Cygwin and other with MSVC/Exceed.  Regardless
Windows will not let you do a TRUE OpenGL hardware rendering. 

If you are using OpenDX compiled using MSVC/Exceed, you could use
any X-server.  The 8 bpps color is fixed in win32-x11.  I was acyually
testing OpenDX (MSVC/Exceed compiled binaries) with it today .
htpp://sources.redhat.com/win32-x11.  

Suhaib

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Black
To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
Sent: 3/24/2001 6:33 PM
Subject: Great work on XF86, and 2 questions

Hi there,

just wanted to say you guys are all doing an awesome job porting XFree86

to Windows. I installed it so i can run OpenDX on my fastest machine 
which is (for now) a Windows box.

I do have a couple fo questions though. I'm not too familiar with the 
intricacies of how the X server interacts with the underlying display 
layer in Windows but,

a) Can i expect to get hardware OpenGL under Cygwin/XFree86 with my 
NVidia GF2MX?

b) I know the colour is screwed up in modes >8 bit colour depth. Is 
there any way of fixing this in a binary-only install, or is it 
definitely necessary to patch the source and recompile?

Thanks

-Pete