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RE: trouble starting up xfree
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Subject: RE: trouble starting up xfree
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:34:23 -0500
Post your OS please. Win9x/Me will give bad creation
and not supported at all
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Hughes [mailto:shughes@dalsemi.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 5:31 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: trouble starting up xfree
>
>
> I've gone through the how-to twice already, downloading the files and
> extracting them in the root folder. Executing startxwin.bat
> gives me a "Bad
> Creation Failed" dialog box after resizing my screen. After
> clicking okay, I
> get a "DirectDrawInit failed"... I'm 99.999% sure that I
> have DirectDraw
> installed, but I'm not sure how to check. Is there anything
> else I could be
> missing?
>
> Thanks in advance..
>
> Scott
>
> --
> Scott Hughes - shughes@dalsemi.com
> Engineer, Auto Information
> Dallas Semiconductor
>