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Re: X server won't start in win95a
- To: huntharo at msu dot edu
- Subject: Re: X server won't start in win95a
- From: Raymond Kwong <kwong at control dot toronto dot edu>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 16:50:40 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, kwong at control dot toronto dot edu
Harold:
I'll try your suggestion more thoroughly tonight. I want also to mention
that I just installed cygwin and X on a win98 machine, and it worked
fine. The win98 machine has directX of course.
Raymond
On 18 Jun, Harold Hunt wrote:
> Raymond,
>
> There may be something wrong with the DirectDraw presence/version detection
> code. Pass the '-engine 1' parameter to XWin.exe in your startup script
> (possibly startxwin.bat); '-engine 1' forces the server to use the GDI
> engine.
>
> Let me know if this works for you, as I'll need to go in and fix the
> DirectDraw detection code. Also, let me know if this does not work for you,
> as I won't need to go in and fix the code :)
>
> Good luck,
>
> Harold