Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 5

[Paul Fine <pfine at delcomsys dot com>]

I have several questions/comments.  I am running Windows 98 on a Toshiba 
4025CDT Laptop with a Pentium II and 160MB RAM. I installed the latest 
cygwin this week and dowloaded the Cygwin-XFree86 from a mirror site, 
installed it and then installed Harold's new XWin.exe.

I was getting an error message saying that the SecurityPolicy file could 
not be opened.  I followed the link from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver to 
find that the link destination did not exist, so I added the proper 
directory structure and copied the SecurityPolicy file from a Linux 
system.  That cleared up the error.

Is this a valid fix or am I going to get further trouble down the road?

I have had good success running Test4, but I do get an error (warning?) 
upon startup
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root

I am not sure how to get rid of this message. Using chown to change 
ownership of the directory to root tells me that there is no user called 
root.  I added a user root, but the chown returned without error, and 
also without changing anything.  I haven't fought this problem too hard 
because it does not seem to be detrimental.

Other than the _XSERVTransmkdir warning, Test4 works very nicely.

I downloaded the Test5 XWin.exe.bz2 this morning and decompressed it in 
/usr/X11R6/bin.  I did not download xwin-20010322-1411.tar.bz2 or 
xc-programs-Xserver-20010320-2100.tar.bz2.  Do I need to to get XFree86 
to work properly?

When I ran the same startxwin.bat batch file from a DOS shell, I got a 
coredump.  Trying Xwin directly from the DOS prompt (using two different 
screen sizes), this is the error message I got.
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C:\usr\X11R6\bin>Xwin -screen 0 800x600x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root

winClearVisualTypes ()
winInitVisuals () - comp 00000003 rm 00000000 gm 00000000 bm 00000000
winInitVisuals () - Using dwBitsPerRGB: 5
winInitVisuals () - Returning
     0 [main] XWIN 490683 handle_exceptions: Exception: 
STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

   859 [main] XWIN 490683 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to 
XWIN.EXE.stackdump

C:\usr\X11R6\bin>Xwin -screen 0 600x400x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root

winClearVisualTypes ()
winInitVisuals () - comp 00000003 rm 00000000 gm 00000000 bm 00000000
winInitVisuals () - Using dwBitsPerRGB: 5
winInitVisuals () - Returning
     0 [main] XWIN 490683 handle_exceptions: Exception: 
STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

  6980 [main] XWIN 490683 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to 
XWIN.EXE.stackdump

C:\usr\X11R6\bin>
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I have the stackdump if that would be helpful.

Great work Harold,

Paul Fine
Delphi Communication Systems, Inc.

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Harold Hunt wrote:

Test 5 has been uploaded to:
http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/shadow/