NeoMagic & DirectX issues

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

Title: NeoMagic & DirectX issues



T he default resolution I changed to 
1024x786x16, that is what xfree86 xvfb servers have bt default on a Linux 
machine.
 
the screen 8 is actually screen 8.  It is not 
DirectX, but the XWin x-server theoretically supports opening upto  8 
screens. It is a multiheaded X-server.
However multiple screen display on a UNIX machine also 
can be video card dependent and usually works on most of the 

video cards, but not all.  

 
Suhaib


  -----Original Message----- From: 
  cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com 
  [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com] On Behalf Of Harold 
  Hunt Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 4:47 PM To: 'Drash, 
  Jim [EESUS]' Cc: Cygx (E-mail) Subject: RE: NeoMagic & 
  DirectX issues
  
  Jim,
   
  I’m 
  going to assume that your notebook cannot handle 1280x1024x16bpp… even if you 
  don’t buy that, just bear with me.   
  Edit your startxwin.bat file and change the following 
  line:
   
  start 
  XWin -screen 8 1024x768x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 
  0
   
  to:
   
  start 
  XWin -screen 0 800x600x16
   
  Direct 
  draw fails to initialize because screen 8 does not exist so the settings for 
  it will be ignored (don’t know why it’s in startxwin.bat, but it is), and the 
  hard coded default resolution for Xwin is 1280x1024x16bpp.   You could probably use 1024x768x16, 
  but try 800x600x16 first, just to be safe.
   
  Harold
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