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RE: Great work on XF86, and 2 questions
- To: "'Pete Black'" <pete at claudia dot dyn dot dhs dot org>, <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: Great work on XF86, and 2 questions
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:43:11 -0500
>a) Can i expect to get hardware OpenGL under Cygwin/XFree86 with my
>NVidia GF2MX?
Not sure about that, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say no.
>b) I know the colour is screwed up in modes >8 bit colour depth. Is
>there any way of fixing this in a binary-only install, or is it
>definitely necessary to patch the source and recompile?
Yup. Download my latest shadow framebuffer based test releases, which have
correct colors for bpp > 8:
http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/shadow/
The shadow framebuffer based server landed about four days ago, and I've
been developing on it at a mad pace since then :)
I believe that the next release (later this evening) will include support
for 24bpp in addition to the current 16bpp and 32bpp support.
Enjoy,
Harold
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
[mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Pete Black
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 6:33 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Great work on XF86, and 2 questions
Hi there,
just wanted to say you guys are all doing an awesome job porting XFree86
to Windows. I installed it so i can run OpenDX on my fastest machine
which is (for now) a Windows box.
I do have a couple fo questions though. I'm not too familiar with the
intricacies of how the X server interacts with the underlying display
layer in Windows but,
a) Can i expect to get hardware OpenGL under Cygwin/XFree86 with my
NVidia GF2MX?
b) I know the colour is screwed up in modes >8 bit colour depth. Is
there any way of fixing this in a binary-only install, or is it
definitely necessary to patch the source and recompile?
Thanks
-Pete