RE: Cannot open display problem?

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Better don't 
Direct8a is targetted more for the next operating system XP.
If everything works for you stick with DX7

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Greiner [mailto:jeremy@win1.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 5:08 PM
> To: E Dambik
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Cannot open display problem?
> 
> 
> I have not ..mainly because all my games work fine on directx 
> 7 and I have
> heard of many problems with directx 8 .. I could try 
> installing for the sake
> of wondering i'll probably do it later this evening.
> -jeremy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: E Dambik [mailto:dambik@indiana.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 1:50 PM
> To: jeremy@win1.net
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Cannot open display problem?
> 
> 
> Jeremy,
> 
> Have you installed DirectX 8 yet on your new Win2K installation?
> If not, it might be interesting to see if it stills works 
> after the upgrade.
> 
> Ed
> 
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> From: "Jeremy Greiner" <jeremy@win1.net>
> To: "Patrick Hung" <hung@Umunhum.Stanford.EDU>
> Cc: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> Subject: RE: Cannot open display problem?
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:13:21 -0500
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> I had this problem as far as I remember we established that it was a
> networking issue .. most likely a conflict between NIC and 
> modem .. I fixed
> it (inderectly) by reisntalling win2k the only differences 
> where lack of a
> modem .. so that is why i think it is a NIC and modem issue 
> .. if you have a
> modem (or maybe 2 NICS) try seeing if connecting to the 
> internet (or having
> both NICS connected) and get your IP and connect through that..
> -jeremy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of 
> Patrick Hung
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 12:04 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Cannot open display problem?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am still getting "cannot open display" error message with 
> Windows ME when
> I use xterm, xhost, ...  As described by others, I can run 
> xterm, twm, etc.
> from the other machines (Sun, Windows 98, etc.) but not from 
> the local host
> (Windows ME).  I am using cygwin1.dll from 4/14 snapshot and 
> 4/14 xfree
> binaries.  X is started with the following command.
> 
>     start XWin -engine 1 -screen 0 1024x768x16 -ac
> 
> Please ignore this message if you are still working on this problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
> 
>