RE: XWin on Win95

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

> So what does '-screen 0 ....' mean; 0 screens?! If I use a value of 1 or 8
> (haven't tried others) I still get the Direct Draw error, but if
> I use 0, I
> get the X hatched background but my PC locks up, requiring a hard
> reset. The
> mouse is dead and ctrl-alt-del does nothing.
>
> Is there anything else I could try?




Screen 0 is screen # o, screen 1 is screen #1.  numbers above 8 should
crash x-server, because it it can open upto screen numbers 8.  numbers 8 and
blow
should not cause server lock up.

Are you sure, you have XErrorDX and XKeysymDB in
X:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11?

make sure it is not missing like rgb.txt file!

If it is there, and your Win98 is not reading it, you can set XKeysymDB and
XErrorDB
ENV in autoexec.bat file, e.g.

set XKeysymDB=C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\XKeysymDB
set XErrorDB=C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\XErrorDB

Reboot after saving changes to autoexec.bat file.

Suhaib


>
> Nick
>
> Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>
> > > Okay, I copied rgb.txt from /usr/lib/X11/lib/rgb.txt into the
> specified
> > > path. That line has no gone the rest are the same.
> > >
> > > I noticed that bitsPerPixel was 10 (=16?) when I asked for 1024x768x8.
> > > This got me wondering and I played around with the command line. What
> > > does the '-screen 8' option do?
> >
> > Sorry forgot this part to answer.
> >
> > screen is number screens.  It is a multihead server.  You can run
> > upto 8 screens.  It will be of better use once multiwindowing
> is working.
> >
> > Suhaib
> >
> > >I put '-screen 0' thinking that it might
> > > mean 'localhost:0' and a X hatched display filled my whole
> screen. This
> > > is more than I've seen before, but my PC then just locked up.
> I thought
> > > I'd ask what the screen option does, before I play around any more....
> > >
> > > Nick.
> > >
> > > Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> > >
> > > > >
> > > > > scheduling timer: Invalid argument
> > > > > Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
> > > >
> > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ what is install PATH?  X needs it and should
> > > > find it or will crash on you.
> > > >
> > > > > _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> > > > > pwin->width = 00000500
> > > > > pwin->height = 00000400
> > > > > pwin->paddedWidth = 00000a00
> > > > > pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000010
> > > > > calling winAllocateFramebufferMemory
> > > > >
> > > > > Then dialog box: "Direct Draw Init Failed     Error =