Re: Updated Xfree binaries

["Jonathan Fosburgh" <syjef at mail dot mdanderson dot org>]

Jonathan Fosburgh
Open Systems
Communications and Computer Services
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX 77030
----- Original Message -----
From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 9:24 AM
Subject: RE: Updated Xfree binaries


>
> > Now it stopped working again. I had it working after going back
> > to vtwm, but
> > one crash of vtwm, and now I am getting the same X server crashes I was
> > getting, even after rebooting.
>
>
> in /usr/X11R6/bin edit startxwin.bat
>
> change the line
>
> start xwin :0
>
> to
>
> xwin -screen 8 17024x768x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
>
> ^^^ no "start" before XWIN
> move the lines
>
> start vtwm
> and
>
> start xterm before xwin -screen ... line, that is xwin... should be last
> line in startxwin.bat file.
>
> execute startxwin.bat again from a DOS shell.
>
> After X-server crash you should have crash message printed in DOSK shell.
> Cut-paste and post
> the crash message.
The last two lines it prints (everything else is about SecurityPolicy
errors, which is bogus) are:
0 [main] XWin 1121 handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
1275 [main] XWin 1121 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to XWin.exe.stackdump