Re: A little driver-specific tip

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

Let me dream up some work for those in this group coding on xfree86 :]

What would be useful would be a utility to extract the available modes
from directX, set a reasonable default and create a xf86config(for
launching from cygwin) & startxwin.bat (for launching from cmd.exe)

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:02 PM
Subject: RE: A little driver-specific tip


>
> I possibly could never write a startxwin.bat file for every video card
out
> in the
> universe.  Consider startxwin.bat as a sample and adjust resolution
(and
> other parameters)
> per your video card.
>
> Thanks
> Suhaib
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gary [mailto:gary@dls.net]
> > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 9:25 PM
> > To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: A little driver-specific tip
> >
> >
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I just wanted to let you know that people using Oxygen
> > VX1-1600SW cards need
> > to set their resolution in the startxwin.bat file to
> > 1600x1024x16; as the
> > card does not support other resolutions, and will cause X to
> > terminate with
> > DirectX errors in the default configuration.
> >
> > Hope this helps someone out there :)
> >
> > -Gary
> >
>