Re: Problems with 1024x768x16

["Bernard Revet" <bmrevet at igr dot fr>]

Dear Martin, Dear Xcygwinnies.

I mentioned already this problem before.t I observed it on a Gateway 2000 with a
crystal scan screen. It seems effectively that if one puts the screen conditions
under Windows NT different from the one that one indicates in the start Xwin
file  then  you obtain satisfaction. for instance 1024x768 and 16 colors under
Win NT and 1024x768x8
for start Xwin -screen 0 1024x768x8 ,then it works fine with 8 depth.

I do not get this behaviour on a labtop Dell Latitude C600 running under W2K.

As far as it was working under one condition I was happy with that but there is
probably a bug somewhere , could be from Windows NT too.

Best regards
Bernard


Plech¹míd Martin wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I run XWin in 1024x768x16 mode. Time from time (but quite often) it happens
> that the Xserver doesn't start correctly in this mode. After it paints its
> gray screen it displays the ordinary Windows mouse cursor (the arrow) over
> it and doesn't react to the mouse movements. After a mouse click the Xserver
> screen disappears, but the Xserver is still running at the background taking
> still all the 100% of processor time (which it does even when it runs
> correctly). No error or unexpected situation is reported, no core is dumped.
> This happens by running XWin.exe alone, without Xterm etc.
>
> I found that the problem gets corrected by starting XWin once in (e.g.)
> 800x600x16, shutting it down then and restarting it in the original
> 1024x768x16.
>
> Is this a known bug? Or, is this a bug.
>
> I run the latest Xfree on NT4 SP6 with the latest CygWin installed.
>
>         Best regards,
>                                 Martin Plechsmid