Re: X server won't start in win95a

[Raymond Kwong]

Harold:

I'll try your suggestion more thoroughly tonight. I want also to mention
that I just installed cygwin and X on a win98 machine, and it worked
fine. The win98 machine has directX of course.

Raymond

On 18 Jun, Harold Hunt wrote:
> Raymond,
> 
> There may be something wrong with the DirectDraw presence/version detection
> code.  Pass the '-engine 1' parameter to XWin.exe in your startup script
> (possibly startxwin.bat); '-engine 1' forces the server to use the GDI
> engine.
> 
> Let me know if this works for you, as I'll need to go in and fix the
> DirectDraw detection code.  Also, let me know if this does not work for you,
> as I won't need to go in and fix the code :)
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Harold