RE: Cannot start X server

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

I have absoultely NO IDEA what you did and what you INSTALLED.
The startx.bat and startdx.bat are not in XFree86 package.  They
are in "contrib" directory.  The X11.dll should never be copied to
Windows\system.  Beside there is no X11.dll for XF86.  It is libX11.dll.
The X11.dll is part of X suite for MSVC and should not be mixed 
with Cygwin, you can mix but won't do any good for Cygwin applications
because they do not know what is it.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zaphodb [mailto:zaphodb@wanadoo.nl]
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 4:38 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Cannot start X server
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I started out like you did (but then a few weeks ago) and I 
> also didn't get
> the free X-server to work.
> I found that the startx.bat file is incomplete. It sets a 
> display variable
> and does nothing more than that.
> The startdx.bat file does a bit more.
> 
> When using this batch file this resulted in errors concerning the
> whereabouts of the rgb.txt file and the fonts.
> All of which were in the right place and even if I specified 
> them on the
> commandline of the server this did not help.
> 
> Other people on this list have experienced the same 
> (dmg@tragsatec.es). Then
> on this list someone suggested to use the commercial x-server 
> demo X-Win32
> 5.1. There is a trail version that works for 30 days (I'm not 
> sure what the
> URL is) and after that for periods of 2 hours in a row. Since I'm not
> planning to use it any longer that seemed fine for me. 
> Installing it was
> very easy and after some experimenting I found that the 
> x11.dll that comes
> with the cygwin distribution had to be copied to the windows/system
> directory. After I had done that everything was functioning 
> perfectly. From
> the cygwin prompt I could then start a program specifying the 
> machine name
> and display number something like  ./prog.exe -display zen:0.0
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Greetz,
> 
> Zaphod B.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon S. Berndt" <jsb@hal-pc.org>
> To: <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 3:55 AM
> Subject: Cannot start X server
> 
> 
> > I have been using Cygwin for some time and today I needed 
> to try out the
> XFree86
> > server. I downloaded everything and got to the point where 
> I could run the
> > startxwin.bat script (which is broken in the first place) 
> but all I ever
> got was
> > a blank X background screen and X cursor.
> >
> > startxwin.bat seems to be broken because
> >
> > 1) /B is not an option for "start"
> > 2) There doesn't seem to be a "vtwm"
> >
> > I tried running xdm, but got a message saying only root 
> wants to run it.
> 
>