From: gcheez AT tampabay DOT rr DOT com (GoatCheez) Subject: Re: XFree86-DX 12 Sep 1998 07:12:18 -0700 Message-ID: <000f01bdde1b$a2fb8dc0$1f105c18.cygnus.gnu-win32@B0B> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: -----Original Message----- From: Sergey Okhapkin To: ; 'Alexander Stockdale' Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 7:47 PM Subject: RE: server X Why not make an accelerated X server that uses DirectX calls, that way it would work on all computers that have DX... I know DirectDraw, however i don't know if i could port the entire code of an X server to use it. If anyone else would be willing, then i think it would be a good cause. GoatCheez gcheez AT tampabay DOT rr DOT com >Alexander Stockdale wrote: >> I think we really need to port XFree86 to the cygwin environment. I've >started looking into this, but it looks like it may be a big job (just look >at the size of the diff file for the OS/2 port). >> > >Porting _Xfree86_ to win32 is a bad idea, because Xfree86 requires direct >video hardware access. The best candidate to port is sample X server >provided with X11 distribution - just create directory >xc/programs/Xserver/hw/Win32 and fill it with some code :-) > >Another interesting possibility is to modify libX11 to display X requests >with Windows GDI calls if environment variable DISPLAY is not set or set to >"localhost". This case bundled Xnest server will act as X server (Xnest >compiles with cygwin and runs), and no X server will be required for local >X clients. Some related work already done in ntxlib package. > >-- >Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos >Moscow, Russia > > >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".