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Re: trouble starting up xfree
No Harold was our best, our brightest, our last hope ....
Seriously though, Harold pulled out the low level code in the X server in the current port, and started anew: the goal, to build an
accelerated X-Server that used directX's line/circle/rect etc functions and work on all win32 OS's. He started out with a very slow
routine that worked on everything... just slowly :[]
I hope that's enough detail on what he did ...
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2000-q4/msg00254.html
You will need to follow thru the archives to get his working.
Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Berndt, Jon S" <jberndt@ems.jsc.nasa.gov>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 10:07 AM
Subject: RE: trouble starting up xfree
> > Post your OS please. Win9x/Me will give bad creation
> > and not supported at all
>
> With me, it seems just so close, though. I get the familiar cross-hatched
> background and X cross-cursor. But when looking at the startxwin.bat script
> and playing with it, it just seems to me that the script is not
> "syncronized". The X server starts fine. But, I never get an xterm to come
> up because they it see the :0.0 display. The "start" command seems to place
> the argument in its own process in the background , so I tried putting
> "sleep 5" commands between the start command for xWin and for the xterm and
> rxvt clients, thinking this might give the xserver a chance to start up and
> "be there" for the X clients. Well, as you might guess ... no such luck.
>
> BTW, I searched the cygwin xfree86 mail archives for "test7" and "test 7"
> and found nothing that would indicate to me what Harold (or was it Howard)
> did to make it work under Win98.
>
> Has anyone else out there kludged anything together for Win98SE success?
>
> Jon Berndt
> Project Engineer
> X-38 Simulation Software Support
> Lockheed-Martin
>
>