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RE: Great work on XF86, and 2 questions
- To: "'Pete Black '" <pete at claudia dot dyn dot dhs dot org>
- Subject: RE: Great work on XF86, and 2 questions
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:45:06 -0500
- Cc: "'cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
Which version of OpenDX? I give out two via opendx.org
one copiled with Cygwin and other with MSVC/Exceed. Regardless
Windows will not let you do a TRUE OpenGL hardware rendering.
If you are using OpenDX compiled using MSVC/Exceed, you could use
any X-server. The 8 bpps color is fixed in win32-x11. I was acyually
testing OpenDX (MSVC/Exceed compiled binaries) with it today .
htpp://sources.redhat.com/win32-x11.
Suhaib
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Black
To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
Sent: 3/24/2001 6:33 PM
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