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RE: PLEASE can anyone help?
- To: "Sylvan Katz" <jskatz at sk dot sympatico dot ca>
- Subject: RE: PLEASE can anyone help?
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:30:08 +1100
- Cc: <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Thread-Index: AcA32UcQ58qqJ3UCRAulTG4HWNtEKAAAGYww
- Thread-Topic: PLEASE can anyone help?
Cool I was jsut asking in case there was an issue with privileges and
getting access to the keyboard.
P.S. Please kepe replies cc:d to the list
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sylvan Katz [mailto:jskatz@sk.sympatico.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, 17 October 2000 12:27 PM
> To: Robert Collins
> Subject: Re: PLEASE can anyone help?
>
>
> I am the adminstrator and ALL the users :-)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert Collins <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
> To: Sylvan Katz <jskatz@sk.sympatico.ca>; cygwin-xfree
> <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 7:19 PM
> Subject: RE: PLEASE can anyone help?
>
>
> Are you and administrator or normal user on the machine?
>
> Rob
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sylvan Katz [mailto:jskatz@sk.sympatico.ca]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 17 October 2000 11:42 AM
> > To: cygwin-xfree
> > Subject: PLEASE can anyone help?
> >
> >
> > Anyone:
> >
> > I am trying to get Xwin running on my NT 4.0 SP 6.0. I am not
> > a software developer I am a researcher who runs 2 NT
> > machines and a Linux box. I need an Xserver so I can work on
> > my Linux box from one of my NT machines. I maintain an Oracle
> > DB on the Linux box and I query it with Perl scripts. I had
> > hoped that Xwin would do the trick. Cygwin installed okay and
> > the Xserver starts but I get an "acquire keyboard" error and
> > there is no keyboard input available. I am running a LogiTech
> > PC/AT Keyboard (84-Key) - US English - cordless keyboard. If
> > you think that Xwin is too unstable to use then I shall
> move to MI/X.
> >
> > Thank you
> > Dr. Sylvan Katz
> > Saskatoon, Sask
> >
> >
> >
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