[ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 4

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

>
> Yes, it is very bizzarre... I'm sitting here looking at a
> cheery X Server on
> my machines, but it doesn't seem to work on almost anyone
> else's machines.
>
> The one tester that reports success has two machines, one
> with a Matrox G400
> 16MB and the other with a C&T65550 2MB.  He's running Windows
> 98 on both
> machines.  That's the only success I have seen to far, other
> than my own.
>
> I might have to take a look at the Nvidia site and see what
> they say about
> overlay alignment...

They say almost nothing!  nVidia is notorious in not giving out any kind of
specifications about their hardware and  video drivers. Therefore,
most of the Linux systems do not include nVidia drivers for GeForce Series
cards. You might be spending hours at their web site for a very little
information.

Suhaib


>
> Harold
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suhaib Siddiqi [ mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com ]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 2:36 PM
> To: 'Harold Hunt'; Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 4
>
>
>
> >
> > On my Windows 2000 machine I've got a Diamond Stealth III
> > S540 PCI 32MB.
> > The chip on the card is a Savage4 PRO+
> >
> > On my Windows 98 machine I've got a Rage IIC AGP with, I think 4MB.
>
>
> Interesting!  xf_dx.dll (your version) works on your cards.
> I noticed from other users post that none of nVidia video card
> users had any luck.  TNT, TNT2 and GeForce series cards use the
> same driver.
>
> Suhaib
>
> >
> > Harold
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Suhaib Siddiqi [ mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com ]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 2:30 PM
> > To: 'Harold Hunt'; Cygx (E-mail)
> > Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 4
> >
> >
> >
> > Harold,
> >
> > With Test 4, still same errors, as with Test 3.
> >
> > Which video card are you using?  I am using GeForce2 GTS, with
> > the latest drivers (DirectX 7.a compatible).
> >
> > Suhaib
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Harold Hunt [ mailto:Harold@compasstechnologies.com ]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:35 AM
> > > To: Cygx (E-mail)
> > > Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 4
> > >
> > >
> > > My computers won't reproduce the problems that people are
> > > reporting, so the
> > > problems must be the result of different video cards
> > allowing certain
> > > parameters to be missing (mine seems to allow all parameters
> > > to be missing),
> > > while other video cards need nearly all of the parameters
> > > when creating an
> > > overlay.  I appreciate the patience of the people that are
> > > testing for me.
> > >
> > > Execute permissions on the xf_dx.dll file were fixed in this
> > > test release.
> > >
> > > I fixed a few silly mistakes that worked fine with my video
> > > cards and OS,
> > > but that probably would cause problems with some video
> cards and OS
> > > combinations.
> > >
> > > Updates in this test release were constrained to xf_dx.dll,
> > so, if you
> > > already have the Test 3 full package
> > > (OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2) installed,
> > > you can just download the xf_dx.dll package; otherwise,
> > > download the full
> > > Test 4 package.
> > >
> > > Full Test 4 Package:
> > > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2
> > > (1.7 MB)
> > > Test 4 xf_dx.dll Package:
> > > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xf_dx.dll.tar.bz2 (43
> > > kB)
> > >
> > > You can download the xf_dx.dll source if you have Visual C++
> > > 6 and you feel
> > > like poking around:
> > > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xf_dx-src.zip (14 kB)
> > >
> > > Any overlay initialization problems would be isolated to the
> > > xf_dx.dll file,
> > > specifically the winDXAllocateFramebufferMemory function,
> > > and, less likely,
> > > the AdjustVideoMode function.  I'd appreciate it if someone
> > with more
> > > DirectDraw overlay experience would take a look at those two
> > > functions.
> > >
> > > Good luck, enjoy, and thanks for testing,
> > >
> > > Harold
> > >
> >
>