RE: drivers..

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

try starting cmd.exe and then running startxwin.bat that way the
commands run and you get to see the error output

Rob
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Aihua Wu [mailto:aihuawu@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, 19 January 2001 11:57 AM
> To: Suhaib Siddiqi
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: drivers..
> 
> 
> I run XWin dirrectly since if you run startxwin.bat,  it will 
> pop a window and
> exit right away and you can not catch the error message.
> Since there are some client programs in startxwind.bat, it 
> will interfere
> with Xwin error message.
> 
> My xf_dx.dll has execute permission.
> 
> Ed Wu
> 
> > Do you mean batch files are used only to run unreal 
> (virtual) servers?
> > 
> > run the chmod +x command as I mentioned in my previous post.
> > 
> > Suhaib
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ed Aihua Wu
> > To: Suhaib Siddiqi
> > Cc: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > Sent: 1/18/2001 6:14 PM
> > Subject: Re: drivers..
> > 
> > Since I believe the XWin is the real X server, I don't use the
> > startxwin.bat
> > script and run dirrectly:
> > XWin -screen 0 800x600x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
> > Then I have the error:
> > cannot load xf_dx.dll
> > 
> > 
> > Ed Wu
> > 
> > ============================
> > The startxwin.bat is:
> > @echo off
> > SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> > SET
> > 
> PATH=%PATH%;e:\apps\win32\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin;e:\apps\win32\c
> ygwin\usr\
> > bin
> > start XWin -screen 0 800x600x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
> > start /B xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow 
> -bg black -e
> > bash
> > start /B rxvt -fn "Lucidia Console-12"
> > start /B vtwm
> > 
> > >
> > > post a copy of your startxwin.bat?
> > >
> > > or are you attempting to start from a bash shell? In that 
> case DO NOT
> > use
> > > startxwin.bat.
> > > customer \usr\X11R6\bin\startx script per your isntallation to use
> > from a
> > > bash shell.
> > >
> > > Suhaib
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Andrew Markebo [mailto:flognat@flognat.myip.org]
> > > Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 2:18 PM
> > > To: Ed Aihua Wu
> > > Cc: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > > Subject: Re: drivers..
> > >
> > >
> > > / "Ed Aihua Wu" <aihuawu@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > | Thanks.
> > > | Yes, it is in my path.
> > > | And the xf_dx.dll is there.
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > | > cannot load xf_dx.dll
> > >
> > > It isn't the usual 'file not found' message, xf_dx sounds 
> like Direct
> > > X, could it be that tried to load xf_dx.dll, and 
> xf_dx.dll couldn't
> > > initialize as it should (no/bad DirectX-support for his 
> graphics card)
> > > and therefore bails out?
> > >
> > >         /Andy
> > >
> > 
>