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The
console messages you posted are not error messages. SecurityPolicy is just
the warning, if yu want you can
create
one or copy one fron a linux box.
pwin-> are farmebuffer switches and has no crash info that means X was
runing OK, and as you write you get
a gray
screen with x cursor, it emans X is runing ok.
if you
have cygwin ins talled on c: drive for exacmple c:\cywgin
then
after bzuniping and untaring installeevery thing
c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6
startxwin.bat should contains c:\cygwin\ust\X11R6\bin in path not
usr\bin\X11
not
sure from where are you getting it
Please
post to mailing list not directly to me.
Thanks
Hello Suhaib,
After carefully following the instructions you've listed below, I get the
following messages appearing in the MS-DOS window which has
"C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\Xwin.exe" on its title bar:
XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of
/tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
and then that is followed by a bunch of messages which look like this:
.
.
.
pwin->height = 00000400
pwin->paddedWidth = 00000a00
pwin->bitsPerPixel =
00000010
calling
winAllocateFramebufferMemory
calling cfb16ScreenInit( 0a069e50, 168b0000, 00000500, 00000400, 00000064,
00000
064, 00000800 )
Successful addition of Screen
0xa0672d0 0xa069e50
pwin->width = 00000500
.
.
.
and then finally, the last message looks like this:
error opening security policy
file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
Is that what I should be seeing?
Also, my screen becomes entirely blank, with a gray-shaded rectangular area
in the middle which contains an X shaped cursor that I can move around -- but
nothing else happens.
I've noticed that the startxwin.bat file sets the PATH variable so that it
includes \usr\bin\X11, but since the *bz2 files you refer to below don't
recreate this directory, I was wondering if I need to install more than just
these *bz2 files.
Thanks,
Mark Terner
Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote:
Points to /usr/bin/X1 huh?I
bet you are making good soup of binaries of msvc compiled stuff rom contrib
directory and xfree86 stuff fromxc-4-binaries directory at Cygwin/XFree FTP
server.There should be no XF86Config file. It is not
needed by XWIN. The port was done in a way that Windowsdoes not require XF86Config file. XF86Config
file basically contains your video, mouse and monitor infoon a Linux box. On Windows, we get that info
by using DirectInput/DirectX, therefore not needed.Suggestions:1) Delete
everything under \cygwin\usr\X11R62)
DOWNLOAD *bz2 archives of precompiled binaris from ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/cygwin/xfree/xc-4-binaries3) under \cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin edit
startxwin.bat and correct the drive letters in PATH for your
installation4) Open a DOS
shell5) cd
\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin6) type
startxwin7) get a cup of coffee and
enjoy if you get it working, if not post exact error messages from the
console windowSuhaib
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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