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Re: Does XWin.exe work on laptops' display?
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:27:51 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: Does XWin.exe work on laptops' display?
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Enoch Wu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 1. Does it work on LCD Active Matrix Displays?
yes, it does.
> 2. Are there any potential pitfalls ?
Don't know any
> 3. Are the XWin.exe codes generic - perhaps I should say display device
> independent?
Yes, they are. Actually it relys only on piece of memory where it draw
the window. This region is managed by directx. So you can say XWin will
work if the DirectX interface is supported by the videocard drivers.
bye
ago
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