Fw: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 3

[Arkadiy Belousov]

Forgot to mention: I tried the tests with 32 bit and abd 8 bit color depth.
I have 32 MB of video memory.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arkadiy Belousov" <arkadiy@micromuse.com>
To: "Harold Hunt" <Harold@compasstechnologies.com>; "Cygx (E-mail)"
<cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 3


> My machine: Dell Dimension 4100, Windows ME, Nvidia TNT2 M64 4x AGP,
driver
> version 4.12.01.0532 (It says DirectDraw 1.0, I am not sure how right is
> that)
>
> Here is what I get:
>
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> Desired Width: 300, Height: 300, Depth: 8
> xf_dx.dll: Process attach
> enable_xf_dx: LoadLibrary success
> xf_dx.dll: AdjustVideoMode entered
> Adjusted Width: 300, Height: 300, Depth: 32
> xf_dx.dll: winDXAllocateFramebufferMemory entered
>
> The server window does appear, approx right size, but then a dialog box
> happens:
>
> IDirectDraw_CreateSurface failed - overlay
> Error = 88760091(unknown error)
>
>
> When focus leaves this dialog, I get another one on top of it:
>
> DeactivateServer failed
> Error = 00000000(unknown error)
>
>
> Those keep appearing every time I switch between X and another window.
> Another interesting thing: the mouse goes under the dialog, I had to use
> space to press OK button.
>
> When I dismiss the original error message w/o asitching to another app, I
> get another dialog:
>
> DirectDraw Init Failed
> Error = 88760091(unknown error)
>
> When I dismiss the other dialog, the whole thing goes away, consoles and
> all.
>
> That concludes my testing :)
>
> I am dying to get my hands on the code! I am handy with GDB or MS
debuggers,
> could do some deep-digging for you .
>
> AB.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harold Hunt" <Harold@compasstechnologies.com>
> To: "Cygx (E-mail)" <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 6:04 PM
> Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 3
>
>
> > There seems to be problems loading the xf_dx.dll library, even though
the
> > file exists; I cannot see a relation between my modifications and the
> > failure of the library to load, so I added a few debugging messages
around
> > the loading of the library to assist in debugging.
> >
> > The new tarball is once again available from:
> > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2
> >
> > Once again, the installation instructions are:
> > cp OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2 /usr/X11R6/bin
> > cd /usr/X11R6/bin
> > mv XWin.exe XWin.orig.exe
> > mv xf_dx.dll xf_dx.orig.dll
> > bunzip2 OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2
> > tar -xf OverlayAndNoDITest.tar
> >
> > Suhaib, John Fortin, and I removed recognized and removed several
> deprecated
> > files from the xf_dx.dll source package; these files were being compiled
> in
> > and removing them shaved 40 kB off the size of the compiled xf_dx.dll
> file.
> > Special thanks to them for getting me to finally look into removing some
> > useless files.  Alas, adding a few debugging messages caused the size to
> go
> > up 8kB, so the total shrink for this release of xf_dx.dll is 32 kB.
> >
> > I'm starting to think that there might be a problem in the way that I am
> > tarballing the EXE and the DLL or in the instructions that I specify for
> > untarballing them; I may be causing a problem with the xf_dx.dll being
> > inaccessible to certain users, or, perhaps some versions of Windows need
> to
> > have the executable attribute set on the DLL.  Pipe up if you have any
> > pointers or solutions.
> >
> > I test each release on a Windows 2000 machine and a Windows 98 machine
> > before I post them; I don't have an NT 4 SP6 machine available, so I'd
> > appreciate it if someone could give a quick works/doesn't work response
> for
> > that platform.
> >
> > Enjoy,
> >
> > Harold
> >
>