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RE: Problems starting xfree
- To: cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: RE: Problems starting xfree
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 11:34:35 -0500
Sorry no Win98. it is not supporetd and clearly written
in FAQ as well as mentioned in posts (mail archives) several times.
A simple search and reading FAQ before using someonething new sometimes
can save time, perhaps a lot of troubles too ;-)
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: zaphodb [mailto:zaphodb@wanadoo.nl]
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 11:25 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Problems starting xfree
>
>
> I have tried to run XFree86 for Cygwin on my PC with W98 installed.
> When I run the startdx.bat file containing the following:
>
> @echo off
> SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> SET PATH=%PATH%;\usr\bin\X11
> start DXWin32 :0 -geometry 1024x768
> start xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black
> start twm
>
> 2 dos-windows pop up and 2 warning messages.
>
> Warning 1 says: Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/lib/X11/rgb'
> Warning 2 says: could not open default font 'fixed'
> If I ok the warnings the dos-windows disappear.
>
> As to warning number 1 it can be said that the file rgb.txt is in
> the /usr/lib/X11 directory (I checked). Even if I use the
> commandline option
> to
> specify the colortable the error persists for the file specified.
>
> directory. As to warning 2 it can be said that even if I use
> the commandline
> option
> "-fn string" to specify a valid font the error persists for the font
> specified.
>
> Can anybody help? Tia !
>
> Greetz,
>
> Zaphod B.
>