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From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: xf86-video-nested HOWTO or FAQ?
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5481FE89.7000602@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5481EC26.8040105@ucsd.edu>

On 2014-12-05 11:32, rcunningham wrote:
> OK, the README says to use this line:
>
>      X -config my.conf -noreset -retro :1
>
> but Cygwin X doesn't support the "-config" option.
>
> Any recommendations for how to make this work?

/usr/bin/X is a symlink to the native DDX.  On Linux this is Xorg, but 
on Cygwin this is XWin.  The xf86-* plugins are meant for the former, so 
you will need to call Xorg instead.

--
Yaakov


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      reply	other threads:[~2014-12-05 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-05 16:36 Bob Cunningham
2014-12-05 16:47 ` Bob Cunningham
2014-12-05 17:32   ` rcunningham
2014-12-05 18:50     ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]

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