Re: XWin Direct Draw error

[Nick Thompson <nickthompson at lucent dot com>]

Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:

> >
> > I have managed to get the XGDI and DXWin32 servers to work, but XWin
> > throws an error in a dialogue box:
> >
> > Direct Draw Init Failed
> > Error = 88760078(unknown error)
>
> Seems to be a DirectX DLL intiallization problem.  Perhaps try
> DirectX 7.1.
>
> The XWin.exe is not linked directly to DirectX/DirectInput DLLs.
> Instead executing XWin.exe calls, the xf_dx.dll, which contains
> the actual X-server code and a loader code to load directx dlls
> from Windows.

The DirectX home page says 7.0a, that I have, is the latest. Is there a 7.1
somewhere?


>  BTW: is there a 233 MHz PIII?  or do you mean Pentium only?

You're right its just a pentium

Nick.