Re: XFree86/Cygwin under win4lin

[Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

On Thu, 10 May 2001, Christopher Stone wrote:

> On Thursday 10 May 2001 02:01 pm, you wrote:
> > Please try the following lines:
> > XWin :2 -screen 0 800x600x16 -engine 1
> > XWin :2 -screen 0 800x600x16 -engine 2
> > XWin :2 -screen 0 800x600x16 -engine 4
> >
> > Since there is a huge emulation layer between linux and win4lin, some of
> > the graphic features from NT or 9x (don't know what win4lin claims to be)
> > may not be available.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried all of these and they all give the same error as before :(
> 
> winFinishScreenInitFB () - Could not allocate frame buffer
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Couldn't add screen 0
> 
> win4lin only runs win 9x (no NT support).  And ive got win95 installed under 
> win4lin.
> 
> Thanks again for trying to help..I have a feeling we have exhausted all 
> options :(   win4lin 3 is coming out soon and I will get a free upgrade, I 
> can try again with win4lin 3.0 and let you know if its any better...
> 
> If you like, I can try compiling a debug version of cygwin-X and getting 
> debug info if you need...id be willing to help all I can to get it working 
> for win4lin...it may take me some time, but just let me know...or if you got 
> another suggestion to try let me know also.
> 
Just a question? Why do you want to run XWin in win4lin. Any program that
might want to connect to XWin can connect to the linux XServer, which is
much faster (I count at least 3 additional abstraction layers in XWin on
win4lin : win4lin, win32, cygwin)    

bye
    ago

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