batting .500 on xfree86-4.0 install

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

> Suhaib and the list,
>
> My deep apologies about the "new dll".  It never happened.  Besides, there
> was only dll and it entirely fix the problem anyway.
>
> I'm not a developer, but I've done enough coding to have some appreciation
> of the difficulties facing you and your team.  I'm new to Cygwin and I'm
> not compiling anything (yet).  As an end-user I've felt my best
> contribution was to test as best I can and report the results.  I'm happy
> to do that.
>
> Someone (I'd name him again, but I'm not sure he wants the 'credit' now!)
> was kind enough to do a special compile addressing my (perhaps peculiar)
> failure.  It seemed only polite to actually test the thing, and report
> those results.


Sorry I did not mean in a bad way... All contributions are welcome.
If i get patches and precompiled executable and dlls, I can make a
"test" directory of sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree, from where others
can download and test.  Once tests are Ok, I would be gald to send
the final patches to XFree86.org.  According to X Consortium Licenses,
patches author can insert his name before the patch, which is always
preserved
when patches are merged into official tree, this gives due acknowledgment to
contributors.

Suhaib

>
> I can certainly appreciate the confusion resulting from many "custom"
> versions floating around.  OTOH, surely everyone benefits from widespread
> and diverse testing.  In any case, I respect your experience with such
> things and I'll follow your advice as best I can.
>
> BTW, I just tried your suggestion about using the xwin.exe from
> XWin-Win9x-Me.tar.bz2.      No go.  As far as i can tell this xwin.exe
> behaves exactly the same (for me) as the one from
> xfree86-4.0-DLLs.tar.bz2.
> And I mean exactly:  both versions work fine on one NT box I
> have, and both
> fail with the same error messages on my other NT box.
>
> I'm going to look around for newer/alternate video drivers for my STB
> ViRGE/VX adapter.  The NT SP6 didn't update that driver, so I'm
> still using
> the one that came with my machine.
>
> Thx again for your help.
>
> ZU,
>     Cronin
>     <vining@zts.com>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> >[ mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Suhaib
> >Siddiqi
> >Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 5:59 AM
> >To: Cronin B. Vining; cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> >Cc: 'Yadin Goldschmidt'
> >Subject: RE: batting .500 on xfree86-4.0 install
> >
> >
> >
> >> So, the new dll did eliminate the "back" error, but not the
> >"Direct Draw"
> >> error.   Somehow I think the "back" error is a red herring.
> >Maybe I just
> >> have a weird video card/driver here.
> >>
> >
> >
> >WHAT NEW DLLS?  PLEASE DO NOT HAVE CUSTOM VERSIONS OF FIXED/MODIFIED
> >EXECUTABLES
> >AND DLLS FLOATING AROUND.  YOU WILL MAKE MY LIFE HECK OF
> >TROUBLE.  I WOULD
> >NOT KNOW WHAT CHANGED YOU MADE, WERE THOSE CHANGES WHICH
> >SHOULD HAVE BEEN
> >INCORPORATED INTO OFFICIAL RELEASES.
> >
> >sUHAIB
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Thx for your support.
> >>
> >> ZU,
> >>     Cronin
> >>     <vining@zts.com>
> >>
> >>
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> >> >[ mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of
> >Harold Hunt
> >> >Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 10:40 PM
> >> >To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> >> >Subject: RE: batting .500 on xfree86-4.0 install
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >I'm sending Cronin a test dll that does not allocate a back
> >> >buffer for the
> >> >screen, because, as far as I can tell, the back buffer is
> >not needed.
> >> >
> >> >Harold
> >> >
> >