RE: right 1/4 of XWin.exe window displays white bar instead of graphics on wide display

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Could you send in a link to a screenshot of this?  Or, personally email me a
PNG of this and I will post a link to it.  Do not send the graphic to the
mailing list, as most users do not want to download a large image from the
mailing list.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of GOULDEY,ANDREW
> (HP-FtCollins,ex1)
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 1:41 PM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
> Subject: right 1/4 of XWin.exe window displays white bar instead of
> graphics on wide display
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use Cygwin/XFree86 as an X server on my PC so that I can
> remote-display my hpux box.  When I start up X, I get a window
> that fills my
> entire screen, but I only see the cursor and thatch background pattern on
> the left 3/4 of the window; the right 1/4 of the window is white, and if I
> move the cursor over it, the cursor disappears.
>
> My setup:
> NVIDIA Quadro4 900XGL w/ 128MB, dual monitor
> Win2k, SP3
> either 2560x1024x32bpp or 3200x1200x32bpp
>
> The /tmp/XWin.log file indicates that XWin.exe thinks it is using
> the whole
> screen, and when I fire up gnome on my hpux box, it seems to think it has
> the full XWin window to work with (but I can only see the left 3/4 of my
> unix desktop).
>
> My /tmp/XWin.log:
> $ cat /tmp/XWin.log
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 3200 h 1200
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Allowing PrimaryDD
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0000001f
> winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per
> pixel
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 2 1172 3200
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Found LEFT auto-hide taskbar
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 3 1172 3200
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 3191 h 1147 r 3191 l 0 b
> 1147 t 0
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed -  Returning
> winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 12764
> winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB
> 8 d 24 bpp
> 32
> winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
> winScreenInit - returning
>
> I can't figure out how to tell what version of XWin.exe I have installed,
> but I just grabbed it a week or two ago, and 'man XWin' has a
> "4.2.0" at the
> bottom, so it should be up-to-date.
>
> By playing around with the -screen option, I have determined that the
> maximum width I can get without the white bar appearing is 2040 or 2041
> pixels.
>
> The interesting thing is that I can get a full dual-monitor
> display (without
> the white bar) if I go into window's Display
> Properties->Settings->Advanced->Troubleshooting and move the hardware
> acceleration slider to a position that disables directdraw/direct3d.
>
> Has anyone successfully run Cygwin/XFree86 on a display wider than 2040
> pixels with directx enabled?  On an NVIDIA card?  ATI card?  I updated my
> drivers to the latest and greatest, and it made no difference.  I can
> successfully run ReflectionX (commercial X server) full screen on my dual
> monitor setup (I assume that uses directx also, so I am not
> convinced it is
> just my video card), but I haven't been all that happy with ReflectionX.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Andrew
>
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