RE: Can't open display...

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> I also tried to connect to a comercial X Server (Omni-x) that did not
>work either.
^^^^ does it mean Omini-X also has Display problem on your machine?
If so, I am confident the problem is related your Windows2k installation.
Something is very very fishy on your system.  After XWin starts from
startxwin.bat, it sets the DISPLAY to 127.0.0.1:0.0 (which localhost), and
you should be able to open at least local x-clients.

Did you check in your \winnt\system32\drivers\etc directory if you have
hosts file, if you do make srue you have the 127.0.0.1 localhost entry in
it.  Can you ping to, from a DOS shell, ping 127.0.0.1?

In the 4.0.3 release, you may find harold test 9, /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin95.exe,
rename XWin.exe to XWin.exe.orig and copy XWin95.exe to Win.exe, and trty
startxwin.bat from a DOS shell.

Suhaib


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Greiner
To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
Sent: 3/30/2001 7:29 PM
Subject: Can't open display...

I have tried various things to get xfree to work on me system: (win2k)
Tried the start up script..
Tried adding the sleep to the start up script
Starting things manually (Xterm -display 127.0.0.1:0)
tried using my real ip and computer name
removed then reinstalled cygwin and made sure it was unix mode
I read this problem in the archives and I am only asking because I tried
everything in the archive and it still does not work.
I also tried to connect to a comercial X Server (Omni-x) that did not
work
either.
I am running win2k
Xfree stable version 4.0.3 (pre compiled)
latest Cygwin binary release as of today ..
any help would be apreciated
-jeremy