Dracula Interactive does not work with XFree86

[Kenichi OKADA]

Hello,

Dracula Interactive does not work on XFree86 and Astec-X.
When I ran Dracula Interactive, icfb is killed by an error of X.
I want to use Dracula Interactive on Linux or Windows desktop.
Do you have any idea?

Regards,

--
Kenichi Okada
Tokyo Institute of Technology
mailtokada@pi.titech.ac.jp

 

[Han Speek]

In article <uhdxyzvyt%okada@pi.titech.ac.jp>, okada@opaopa.org says...

Hello,

Dracula Interactive does not work on XFree86 and Astec-X.
When I ran Dracula Interactive, icfb is killed by an error of X.
I want to use Dracula Interactive on Linux or Windows desktop.
Do you have any idea?

Regards,

Hi,

I assume that with Dracula Interactive you mean the viewer, InQuery ?
I've recently done a lot of work qualifying X emulation software for
the company I work for - and have found that InQuery is able to crash
all of them (which includes the top top players in the field, WRQ's
Reflection X and Hummingbird's Exceed).

The only way around the crash that I've found up to now - but I'm open
to suggestion from the more knowledgeable people at Cadence - is to set
the backing-store of the X server to the most memory-hungry setting
(called "When Mapped" in Reflection X, or "Always" in some other X
servers). In XFree86, backing store is turned off altogether by default,
and it may depend on your video hardware if it's safe to turn it on.
It is enabled by adding the line 'Option "backingstore"' to your
XF86Config file.

Let me know if this gets you anywhere,

Han.

 

[Kenichi OKADA]

Hi,

I can solve our problem. Thank you very much.

In the message <MPG.1a937e4fc4291ee9989680@news.xs4all.nl>
Han Speek <hspeek@xs4all.nl> wrote:

In article <uhdxyzvyt%okada@pi.titech.ac.jp>, okada@opaopa.org says...
Hello,

Dracula Interactive does not work on XFree86 and Astec-X.
When I ran Dracula Interactive, icfb is killed by an error of X.
I want to use Dracula Interactive on Linux or Windows desktop.
Do you have any idea?

Regards,



Hi,

I assume that with Dracula Interactive you mean the viewer, InQuery ?

Yes.

I've recently done a lot of work qualifying X emulation software for
the company I work for - and have found that InQuery is able to crash
all of them (which includes the top top players in the field, WRQ's
Reflection X and Hummingbird's Exceed).

The only way around the crash that I've found up to now - but I'm open
to suggestion from the more knowledgeable people at Cadence - is to set
the backing-store of the X server to the most memory-hungry setting
(called "When Mapped" in Reflection X, or "Always" in some other X
servers). In XFree86, backing store is turned off altogether by default,
and it may depend on your video hardware if it's safe to turn it on.
It is enabled by adding the line 'Option "backingstore"' to your
XF86Config file.

Let me know if this gets you anywhere,

Han.

 

[B]

Kenichi OKADA wrote:

Hi,

I can solve our problem. Thank you very much.

In the message <MPG.1a937e4fc4291ee9989680@news.xs4all.nl
Han Speek <hspeek@xs4all.nl> wrote:

It is not clear what did you do. Could you post the solution,
it might be of use for the others.
thanx