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Re: Back creation failed
- To: wgarcia at upf dot es
- Subject: Re: Back creation failed
- From: Andrew Markebo <flognat at flognat dot myip dot org>
- Date: 11 Jan 2001 17:40:47 +0100
- Cc: Xfree Mailing List <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <3A5DB93B.D3D65F3F@upf.es>
I had some weird problem like this, it seems like the cause was me
using 'xmouse-mode' in Win2k, and moving the focus to another window
while loading the x-server.. try to doublecheck so that focus always
lies on the window popped up that starts the x-server..
/Andy
/ Walter Garcia-Fontes <wgarcia@upf.es> wrote:
| Following up on my previous message, I changed to
| start /B twm (instead of vtwm)
| and also have these defined:
| export TMP=/tmp
| export TEMP=/tmp
| export TEMPDIR=/tmp
|
| (thanks to gerrit.haase@convey.de for pointing to these)
|
| but I still can't run the X server. The messages that I get are the
| same as before ("back creation failed" and "Direct Draw Init
| Failed",
| Thanks!
|
| --
| Walter Garcia-Fontes
| Barcelona, Spain