Unable to run xfree86 on Windows NT 4.0 SP 6a?
Denis Haskin
denis.haskin@bigfoot.com
Sun Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 2001
I'm unable to successfully run xfree86 on a Windows NT system, although
the documentation indicates I should be able to do this.
The system has Windows NT 4.0 workstation, service pack 6a (which is
supposed to have DirectX 3.0).
I downloaded & installed cygwin 1.1.7 and xfree86 4.0 (I downloaded the
minimal set of xc-4-binaries, according to the doc). Did the setup as
the doc says.
However, when I attempt to run startxwin.bat, this happens:
In the window where XWin is running, the following appears:
Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
pwin->width = 00000320
pwin->height = 00000258
pwin->paddedWidth = 00000640
pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000010
calling winAllocateFramebufferMemory
and then a dialog box appears with
Direct Draw Init Failed: Error = 88760078 (uknown error)
Does xfree86 require a later DirectX version? As far as I can tell 3.0
is the latest one available for NT.
Much thanks,
Denis Haskin
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