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Suhaib,
Thanks for your help. I tried your suggestion to
run startxwin.bat from the DOS prompt. I first ha dto chage the path mentioned
in it; it now points to /usr/bin/X11, which does not exist. After that, the
resuly was the same as before.
What puzzles me is that there is not a XF86config
file in my cygwin directory structure; is it not required for XWin?
Thanks again, any suggestions what to try
next?
>>L.S.
> >>I have a problem that looks a bit like the one reported recently by John Turner; however, the solution outlined for >>him does not work for me.
>>This is what I did: >>- installed Cygwin 1.1.4 on my machine (PIII, TNT2 video card). This was the first time I used Cygwin, so no chance >>for B20.1 or other versions. > > >I hope people stop thinking of B20.1. That word is engraved in some user mind >so deep that Cygwin can be on B20.1 but nothing else??? > > >>- downloaded all xfree86-4.0-* tar.bz2 files >>- untarred into toplevel cygwin dir, so installation is under /usr/X11R6 >>- added /usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/X11R6/lib in front of the path in /etc/profile; the path is OK according to bash. >>- entered "startxwin.bat" at the bash prompt.(XWin -screen 8 1024x768x16 has the same effect) > >You DO NOT enter startxwin.bat at the BASH prompt. That is your problem. >The batch files are for DOS. For BASH, use startx script which ships with xfree86. OR WRITE >YOUR OWN. > > >>A few DOS boxes with xwin, xterm etc. flash over the screen, then the screen becomes black, with just a small >>>hour->glass shaped cursor, which can be moved around. For the rest, the machine is completely frozen, only >the reset >>button gets it alive again.
>>Two times there was a "lost cluster" on the disk after reboot that contained a listing of messages just as John >>reported, apart that the text stops after "error opening security policy file >>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy". >>I did a few experiments to see what could be happening: >>- I did rebuild all font .dir files as recommended to John, but this does not help. >>- it looks like the Xserver is running, trying to point an xterm from a linux box did not give any errors on the >>linux side, only nothing was visible at the
windws side!
>>- the xterm on the cygwin/windows machine does work with the MIX Xserver,only it reports that sh is not available, >>but I do not think this could be the problem. > >>Any suggestions how to get this to work, or at least to get some more info (logfiles etc) about what is going >wrong? >>Any configuration files that should be changed? |
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