[MPlayer-cygwin] X shared memory extension

[Stefan Gürtler]

>
> SG> [ws] sorry, your system is not supported X shared memory extension.
>
>
> SG> I had a look at the cygwin packages to see if i have missed to install
some
> SG> packages. But expect some fonds, the xwin-gl, xwinwm, the x font
server
> SG> packages and some other non-xorg-stuff that i think is unimportant, i
have
> SG> installed all packages from section X11.
> SG> google did not bring up anything usefull up to now, just that you can
turn
> SG> the shared memory extension of when unsing gimp :(
> SG> I get this error message one two systems, one PIII with nVidia TNT
Win98 and
> SG> another P4 with new ATI Radeon 9800? running WinXP SP1 (not sure about
the
> SG> number of the card, though).
> SG> Anyone can give me a hint on this?
>
> It supports. You should install cygipc package. It includes a daemon
> called ipc-daemon2.exe Install it as a service under NT/2k/XP, or
> start from commandline under Win98/Me. There is a readme about it at
> /usr/share/doc/cygipc. I almost forgot: add 'server' string to the
> CYGWIN environment variable.
> Anyway, it won't help a lot...

I will give it a try and then give a report of what is going wrong when
using gmplayer on cygwin using the x11 and gl2 vos. Thanks for the hind.

Stefan