Setting up X

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Your choice.  You decide what is best.
However with DirectX we need to make sure we use DirectX 3.0, not a
higher version otherwise NT 4.0 will be a problem.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Mike
> MacDonald
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 5:38 PM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com'
> Subject: FW: Returned mail: Host unknown
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>
> There is a good chance though, still, that I'll have to
> use DirectX to get
> the memory pointer..  I don't think that it will be easy
> to get access to
> video memory any other way, even with mapmem..  getio on
> the other hand..
> Thats cool!!  :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suhaib Siddiqi [mailto:sssiddiqi@ipass.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 5:25 PM
> To: Mike MacDonald
> Subject: RE: Setting up X Sources
>
>
>
>
> I agree with your approach.  Take your time and see if you could
> come up
> with a solution.  Thanks
> Suhaib
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike MacDonald [mailto:mmacdona@tsi.gte.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 5:25 PM
> > To: 'ssiddiqi@ipass.net'
> > Subject: RE: Setting up X Sources
> >
> >
> > Well, getio will definately take care of the io problem
> > if it works..  I
> > think it will..  MapMem should deal with the memory
> > mapping..  If it works..
> > I think MapMem does IO too, but I think that getio does
> > it faster.  Its
> > mostly just a matter of stitching them into the
> > os_support stuff now, and
> > debugging.  Later maybe combining mapmem and getio into
> > one driver..  Its
> > the cleanest solution, and enough like what os2 is doing
> > that most of the
> > same code should apply..   I think os2 calls drivers a
> > little different than
> > windows, but thats the most of it..
> >
> > In other words, getting really close to having something
> > that might work..
> >
>