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RE: startxwin.bat fails
- To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>, <Richard_Larrabee at amsinc dot com>
- Subject: RE: startxwin.bat fails
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:52:59 -0400
- Cc: "cygx" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
> Wouldn't it be more practical to have xwin output
> an information message when the display depth cannot
> be handled, rather than having to answer incessantly
> the same question?
I had thought about the same thing, just haven't had time to get to it yet.
:)
I was going to write such a patch a couple days ago but then the FAQ stuff
took center stage.
However, I see something interesting about this user's error message:
> > winInitVisualsShadowDD () - Masks: 00000000 00000000 00000000 bpRGB: 0
Normally I know that a user is running Windows at 8 bits per pixel because
the bpRGB field gets set to 8 when we query DirectDraw for the current
display mode. However, this user's bpRGB is 0, which I haven't seen before.
Perhaps there is something else going on with this particular user's
problem...
Harold