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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 11:28:08 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Cc: nzanella AT cs DOT mun DOT ca
Subject: Re: One last xfree question: funny monitor dependant patterns
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104160544100.23496-100000@garfield.cs.mun.ca>; from nzanella@cs.mun.ca on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:53:08AM -0230

THIS IS THE WRONG MAILING LIST FOR X QUESTIONS.

cgf

On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:53:08AM -0230, Neil Zanella wrote:
>I have one last xfree question.  Under Linux I have to choose the X
>server I am need so that it matches the hardware but under cygwin there
>is just one executable called XWin.exe.  How does it know what video
>card I have?I I ask for the following reason: when I run the X server
>the background does not look as nice as the windows 2k background: let
>me explain: I am using SAMSUNG SyncMaster 700NF monitor (a flat CRT)
>with a 3dfx voodoo3 card.  I see some funny wave like patterns behind
>the gray pattern when I launch X Windows.  These patterns are the same
>as those I see (and I assume other users would see them too) when I
>click Start, Shutdown (you need a fairly light background to see them
>and they only appear after clicking Shutdown).  How can we keep the
>patterns from showing up?

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