RE: New Server only binaries are available for testing

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

> I'm using the latest fonts. I've erased everything and installed
> xfree86-{bin,fonts,devel}.tar.bz2 and X-server-20000506.tar.bz2
>
> cygwin-xfree-x11r6.4-cygwin-B20.1.tar.bz2 is not installed. Hope it's Ok.
> It unpacks to a different directory /usr/X11R6.4, so it shouldn't be
> needed, right?
>
> > > However, this works much better that it used to work with the previous
> > > server:
> > > XNtUx.exe :0 -screen 0 1024x768x16
> >
> > How about:
> >
> > XNtUX :0 -screen 1024x768x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
>
> No effect. However this
>
> XNtUX :0 -screen 1024x768x8 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
>
> looks "better" than just "XNtUX :0 -screen 1024x768x8". Now I see two gray
> "mini-screens" occupying the upper half of the physical screen.

This is a bug and needs to be fixed.  It shows up with on some PC and doe
snot on others.

>
> Aha! Those files are in xfree86-devel.tar.bz2. I thought I don't need it
> because I'm not going to develop anything.


>
> But I see no effect even after unpacking xfree86-devel.tar.bz2


I will have a look tonight at home.

>
> By the way, I'm affraid that xfmap.sys is not installed properly on my
> system. I put it to c:\winnt\system32 and c:\winnt\system32\drivers
> without playing any games with regedit.

xfmap.sys is not implemented yet.  It will be sued by xfree86.exe, for which
code is being written.

Suhaib

>
> Thank you for your time,
>
> Pavel Roskin