I had a perfectly working Cygwin/Xfree installation on a Windows 2000 desktop machine in my office with an NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/64 Pro video card. Unfortunately after an "involuntary upgrade" from Xfree 4.2 to 4.3 (just learned the hard way to choose "Keep" when running the cygwin setup to install just a few new programs) my Xfree became tremendously slower. (4.3 takes minutes to load vs. seconds of 4.2). Not finding an easy fix, I uninstalled Cygwin completely, and (using a year-old backup CD of the install files) reinstalled Xfree 4.2. This is when I noticed that my xterm windows now come up black/and white, and Xfree is now unable to allocate any colormap entry (for black, white, red etc.)
I also have a laptop, where I do not have and never had any such problems, although I always "take home" the files downloaded from my desktop machine to install Cygwin programs on it. When I compare the Xwin.log from my laptop with the Xwinrl.log on my desktop, I see no essential difference. The file C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\rgb.txt is there. If I remove it then I see a complaint about it missing, and Xfree 4.2 comes up in a window with grey background. When I put it back, then the background of the Xfree 4.2 window is green, but then any program window in it is able to produce only black and white colors (with the colormap warnings, when appropriate). The only other change besides the upgrade that I undid that may be relevant is that I downloaded the latest NVIDIA (windows) driver for the card. Could it be that it "consumes" more colors than before. Any help on this issue will be greatly appreciated. I am including a copy of my latest XWinrl.log below. (Why the rl by the way? I am not logging in remotely, or not on purpose at least.) ----- OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0 winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 800 h 600 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning (EE) Unable to locate/open config file InitOutput - Error reading config file winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Allowing PrimaryDD winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0000001f InitOutput - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 16 bits per pixel winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 800 h: 600 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 800 h: 600 winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 572 800 winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 572 800 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 794 h 547 r 794 l 0 b 547 t 0 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Returning winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Creating primary surface winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Created primary surface winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Attached clipper to primary surface winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 1588 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow pitch: 1588 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow stride: 794 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f BPRGB 6 d 16 bpp 16 winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () winFinishScreenInitFB - returning winScreenInit - returning InitOutput - Returning. (EE) No primary keyboard configured (==) Using compiletime defaults for keyboard Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)" Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, removing from list! winBlockHandler - Releasing pmServerStarted winBlockHandler - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned (EE) Unable to locate/open config file InitOutput - Error reading config file winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Allowing PrimaryDD winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0000001f InitOutput - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 800 h: 600 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 794 h: 547 winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 572 800 winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 572 800 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 794 h 547 r 794 l 0 b 547 t 0 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Returning winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Creating primary surface winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Created primary surface winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Attached clipper to primary surface winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 1588 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow pitch: 1588 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow stride: 794 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f BPRGB 6 d 16 bpp 16 winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () winFinishScreenInitFB - returning winScreenInit - returning InitOutput - Returning. (EE) No primary keyboard configured (==) Using compiletime defaults for keyboard Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)" Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, removing from list! winBlockHandler - Releasing pmServerStarted winBlockHandler - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned winWindowProc - WM_*KEYDOWN - Closekey hit, quitting ----- Gabor Hetyei Mathematics Department Phone: (704) 687-2543 UNC Charlotte Fax: (704) 687-6415 Charlotte NC 28223-0001 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 335F Webpage: www.math.uncc.edu/~ghetyei
