Now a XFree86 4.0 based X-server

[Trevor Forbes]

Suhaib

Congratulations to you and the other members who have contributed and got it
working.

Thanks again.

Regards Trevor


----- Original Message -----
From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Monday, 5 June 2000 9:22
Subject: RE: Now a XFree86 4.0 based X-server


>
>
> >
> > Congratulations!  It sounds like things are starting to take off here!
> >
> > cgf
>
> Chris, Thanks.
>
> A lot of credit goes to Peter Busch for writing excellent drivers.
> One of his latest contribution is DirectX dlls dynamic loader, xf_dx.dll.
> Cygwin users do not need to link DirectX applications to DirectX SDK ports
> for Cygwin, instead calling xf_dx.dll would load DirectX drivers installed
> on the Windows.
>
> I will be making setup.exe of X-servers released this weekend.  This would
> simplyfy installation process.  After rleasing executables with setup.exe,
> I would clean up the Cygwin/XFree ftp server directory and remove all the
> so-called Beta and non-functional X-servers.
>
> The XFree86 4.0 source tree needs some cleaning.  After that I would
> update CVS tree, hopefully by weekend.
>
> The X-servers released yesterday are not Beta any more.  I marked them
> as Versions 1.0.
>
> Someone posted a couple of weeks ago that he was willing to help put
> together
> a FAQ in HTML and PDF, formats.  Can he contact me again please?
>
> Regards
> Suhaib
>
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 06:13:17PM -0700, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> > >Peter Busch gave a big hand in writing a DirectX based
> > >dynmically loaded library and fixing bugs.
> > >
> > >Soooooooooooooo!!!!!
> > >
> > >Here is a first version of "stable" XFree86 4.0 based
> > >X-server.
> > >
> > >Get the xfree86-4.0-xwin.tar.bz2 from
> > >
> > > ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/xfree/xc-4-binaries
> > >
> > >Unzip and untar in a /usr directory.  Grab rest of
> > >the archives from xc-4-binaries directory on
> > >Sourceware
> > >or get X-servers-v-1.0.tar.bz2 from contrib directory.
> > >
> > >This server works in fullscreen mood only and is based
> > >upon XFree86 4.0 source tree.
> > >Known problems;  It is stable only in 8bpp mode, 16
> > >and 24bpp mode will turn your xterm RED and GREEN ;-)
> > >
> > >We will be spending now a great deal of time putting a
> > >HOW-TO and FAQs
>
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>