Re: Will there ever be a Test 8 release?

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

Win ME _might_ work due to better 32 bit internals.

That's not to say it _will_ work.

Please help out on the GDI version though - the framebuffer experiment
is now a known dead end...

Rob



----- Original Message -----
From: "Arek (James Potts)" <webmaster@verge-net.com>
To: "Cygwin Xfree Mailing List" <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: Will there ever be a Test 8 release?


> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>