Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <39BECED2.B1420427@veritas.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:48:18 -0700 From: Bob McGowan Organization: VERITAS Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin CC: Harold Hunt Subject: regarding the "Installation How_To Draft" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just tried the setup, based on the copy of the how-to I printed yesterday, and had the following error when I tried to start the system: Direct Draw Init Failed I researched on the MS web pages and found the following support article, which you may want to reference in the how-to: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q261/4/50.ASP There appears to be a hardware/driver problem with cetain video cards based on the following chip sets: Cirrus Logic 54xx S3 Trio 32/64/64V+ S3 Vision 864/964 Trident TGUI 9440/9470 Trident TVGA 8900/9000 I am searching for upgrade info, specific to the Cirrus Logic video controller in my NEC, if you want that info also let me know. -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software rmcgowan@veritas.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com