trouble starting up xfree

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

Post your OS please.  Win9x/Me will give bad creation
 and not supported at all

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Hughes [ mailto:shughes@dalsemi.com ]
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 5:31 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: trouble starting up xfree
> 
> 
> I've gone through the how-to twice already, downloading the files and
> extracting them in the root folder.  Executing startxwin.bat 
> gives me a "Bad
> Creation Failed" dialog box after resizing my screen. After 
> clicking okay, I
> get a "DirectDrawInit failed"...  I'm 99.999% sure that I 
> have DirectDraw
> installed, but I'm not sure how to check.  Is there anything 
> else I could be
> missing?
> 
> Thanks in advance..
> 
> Scott
> 
> --
> Scott Hughes - shughes@dalsemi.com
> Engineer, Auto Information
> Dallas Semiconductor
>