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Harold > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of GOULDEY,ANDREW > (HP-FtCollins,ex1) > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 1:41 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: right 1/4 of XWin.exe window displays white bar instead of > graphics on wide display > > > Hi, > > I am trying to use Cygwin/XFree86 as an X server on my PC so that I can > remote-display my hpux box. When I start up X, I get a window > that fills my > entire screen, but I only see the cursor and thatch background pattern on > the left 3/4 of the window; the right 1/4 of the window is white, and if I > move the cursor over it, the cursor disappears. > > My setup: > NVIDIA Quadro4 900XGL w/ 128MB, dual monitor > Win2k, SP3 > either 2560x1024x32bpp or 3200x1200x32bpp > > The /tmp/XWin.log file indicates that XWin.exe thinks it is using > the whole > screen, and when I fire up gnome on my hpux box, it seems to think it has > the full XWin window to work with (but I can only see the left 3/4 of my > unix desktop). > > My /tmp/XWin.log: > $ cat /tmp/XWin.log > winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 3200 h 1200 > winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning > _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root > winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP > winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed > winDetectSupportedEngines - Allowing PrimaryDD > winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed > winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0000001f > winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking > winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per > pixel > winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 2 1172 3200 > winAdjustForAutoHide - Found LEFT auto-hide taskbar > winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 3 1172 3200 > winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 3191 h 1147 r 3191 l 0 b > 1147 t 0 > winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Returning > winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 12764 > winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff > winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB > 8 d 24 bpp > 32 > winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () > winScreenInit - returning > > I can't figure out how to tell what version of XWin.exe I have installed, > but I just grabbed it a week or two ago, and 'man XWin' has a > "4.2.0" at the > bottom, so it should be up-to-date. > > By playing around with the -screen option, I have determined that the > maximum width I can get without the white bar appearing is 2040 or 2041 > pixels. > > The interesting thing is that I can get a full dual-monitor > display (without > the white bar) if I go into window's Display > Properties->Settings->Advanced->Troubleshooting and move the hardware > acceleration slider to a position that disables directdraw/direct3d. > > Has anyone successfully run Cygwin/XFree86 on a display wider than 2040 > pixels with directx enabled? On an NVIDIA card? ATI card? I updated my > drivers to the latest and greatest, and it made no difference. I can > successfully run ReflectionX (commercial X server) full screen on my dual > monitor setup (I assume that uses directx also, so I am not > convinced it is > just my video card), but I haven't been all that happy with ReflectionX. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Andrew > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > https://ecardfile.com/id/Andrew+Gouldey