Re: Will there ever be a Test 8 release?

["Arek \(James Potts\)" <webmaster at verge-net dot com>]

Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't the current release supposed to work with WinME
(but not Win95/98)?  I'll look the docs over again, but I think that they
say that WinME is supported.  If it's not, the docs need to reflect this,
and I might just help out on the GDI version of XFree.

James Potts
(webmaster@verge-net.com)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Eibach" <a.eibach@gmx.net>
To: <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 2:55 PM
Subject: Will there ever be a Test 8 release?


> At first glance, this question may appear silly.
> But after reading Harold's comments on the devel page...
>
> "Test 7 is the result of my efforts to learn how the framebuffer based
> Cygwin/XFree86 worked, and to see if I could make the framebuffer based
> Cygwin/XFree86 work on Windows 95/98/Me. Ultimately, I failed. :-) I can
say
> with confidence that you cannot create a safe, framebuffer based X server
on
> Windows 95/98/Me; you could write a pseudo-video driver that exposed the
> video memory to the X server, but that would be very risky and difficult
to
> support."
>
> AFAIR, I think this statement has obviously destroyed all hopes that there
> ever could be a *really usable* release for Win9x/Me. I hope I'm wrong,
> though ;)
>
> Andreas
>
>
>
>