RE: DirectX based X Server (coming soon...)

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

Interesting!!!!  You had been following the cygwin-xfree list also
working on an X-server.

Xvfb does compile with MSVC 6 and I had done it a long time ago.
Xnest compiles too with Xvfb.

To port your DX code to Cygwin, we can help you, if you are willing
to give us access to your code base.

Of course Cygwin-xfree is GPled therefore it would meet your GPL
requiremnts.

The X11R6.4/Xserver directory was ported to Cygwin and also MSVC by
me
almost a year ago.  The cygwin-xfree code available from
sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/xfree, also contains patches for
XFree86 4.0 Snapshots, which is basically X11R6.4.  X11R6.4/Xserver
code ported to MSVC 6.0 is at my URL at http://siddiqi.webjump.com

If you are willing to share your code with us (John Fortin, Mike,
and me) would be helpfull.

Suhaib


> Greetings,
>
> Currently, I am working on DirectX based XServer for
> Windows. The server
> is functional - the current status is as follows:
>
> a. Based on X11R6.4 source tree from x.org.
> b. I used VC 6 and should be moving to cygwin soon.
> Ofcourse, the server
> will be GPLed.
> c. Server works perfectly well using fvwm/twm window
> managers. With kwm
> (KDE) - the window manager hangs sometimes. This is a
> reproducable bug
> and I will explain it below.
> d. 24bit mode is still not supported - I need some help
> in understanding
> how I can use cfb32 with 24 bit mode.
> e. X -query <host> works with Linux boxes, but does not work with
> Solaris.
>
> For porting the server to cygwin, I need to know the
> porting status of
> X11R6.4 (XServer) directory. Could anyone please
> enligthen me.


>The code
> is based on Xvfb server (which incidentally get compiled
> with VC-6).
>
> I should be announcing the release of the server once it
> stabilises a
> little bit more.
>
> Bugs
> ----
>
> 1. KWM - this happens when I use the default theme which
> comes along
> with Corel Linux. I start gimp->script-fu->misc->sphere.
> OK. The sphere
> is displayed. When I close the window, the confirmation dialog is
> displayed. When I click OK, the confirmation dialog-box hangs. The
> dialog is cleared, but the window does not go away.
> Killing kwm (with
> -HUP) gives X_GetProperty not implimented by server
> messages from kwm.
> Seems kwm thinks that the window still exists, but the
> server does not
> have the window. When I kill kwm, the server becomes
> active again. I can
> start kwm and start using the system.
> If I use any other theme, except for the default the
> server works fine.
>
> 2. X -query <host>
> <dump>
> On the solaris server log, the following message appears:
> /usr/openwin/bin/xset:  bad font path element (#37),
> possible causes
> are:
>     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>     Directory missing fonts.dir
>     Incorrect font server address or syntax
> /usr/openwin/bin/xset:  bad font path element (#37),
> possible causes
> are:
>     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>     Directory missing fonts.dir
>     Incorrect font server address or syntax
>
> Wed Dec 29 04:16:06 1999
> error (pid 26573): display 172.16.10.8:0 could not be initialized,
> server may be grabbed.
> </dump>
>
> Any help in this regard will be appreciated.
>
>
> Regards
> KD
>