RE: MicroImages MI/X NT install

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

> I was considering using the Microimages MI/X product as an X 
> server on my NT machine to provide X windows access to my 
> RedHat Linux 6.2 box until the
> Cygwin keyboard interface is more stable. However, I ran into 
> a problem with the MI/X product installing properly under NT 
> 4.0 service pack 6.0. Now I can not seem to be able to get 
> rid of it using NT control panel -> add/remove.
> 
> Has anyone else encountered a similar or other problems with 
> the MicroImages MI/X product?


Out-of-topic here.  Please contact MicroImage for it.

Suhaib

> 
> --
> Sylvan Katz
> Saskatoon, Sask
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Harold Hunt <Harold@compasstechnologies.com>
> To: 'Sylvan Katz' <jskatz@sk.sympatico.ca>; cygwin-xfree 
> <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 10:35 AM
> Subject: RE: PLEASE can anyone help?
> 
> 
> > Sylvan,
> > 
> > You may want to hold off on further investigation as I'm 
> having pretty good
> > luck with yanking out the Direct Input keyboard logic and 
> replacing it with
> > standard Windows keyboard access.  The problem with Direct 
> Input is that we
> > have to gain exclusive access to the keyboard, the keyboard 
> has to have a
> > Direct Input capable driver, and keyboard settings from the 
> control panel
> > are ignored (key mappings, etc.); processing keyboard input 
> without Direct
> > Input eliminates all of these problems.
> > 
> > I'm only going to modify the xf_dx.dll code in my first 
> implementation of
> > the new keyboard logic, later on I will modify the XWin.exe code to
> > eliminate some duplicate key code translations.
> > 
> > I'll keep you posted,
> > 
> > Harold
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sylvan Katz [mailto:jskatz@sk.sympatico.ca]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 11:14 AM
> > To: Harold Hunt; cygwin-xfree
> > Subject: Re: PLEASE can anyone help?
> > 
> > 
> > Harold:
> > 
> > Sorry for the delay - academic business :-)
> > 
> > > One more thing: do you have any programs running that 
> might use Direct
> > Input
> > > to acquire the keyboard?  Try shutting down all 
> non-system applications,
> > > then try to launch Cygwin/XFree86.  I would shut down any 
> applications in
> > 
> > I can not find anything that might be using Direct Input. I 
> tried shutting
> > everything down in Startup as you suggested but this did 
> not cure the
> > problem. I did not play with the registery as I am do not 
> feel competent to
> > poke around in it and the NT machines are my production 
> machines. I prefer
> > to leave them alone since it took some work to get them 
> into a stable
> > production configuration.
> > 
> > > You might first want to try installing a normal keyboard 
> (not just a
> > normal
> > > driver), just to see if that works or not.
> > 
> > I will give this a try and get back to you
> > 
> > Sylvan
> > 
> > Sylvan Katz
> > Saskatoon, Sask
> > VE5ZX & G0TZX
> > 
>