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RE: Nothing happens after startxwin
- To: "'Harold Hunt'" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- Subject: RE: Nothing happens after startxwin
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 16:14:37 -0400
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Who is distributing those old versions?
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 4:09 PM
> To: 'Andreas Eibach'; 'Leo Uzcategui'
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Nothing happens after startxwin
>
>
> Actually, the messages generated by XWin.exe on startup are a
> dead give away
> that the version of Cygwin/XFree86 being referred to are from
> June 2000, not
> from March 2001. Old versions of Cygwin/XFree86 are
> unsupported, as are
> current versions, but at least current versions are a little less
> unsupported :)
>
> Harold
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Andreas
> > Eibach
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 4:03 PM
> > To: Leo Uzcategui
> > Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: Nothing happens after startxwin
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Leo Uzcategui" <leo@uzcategui.com>
> > To: <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 6:00 AM
> > Subject: Nothing happens after startxwin
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > First, let me say I am a first time user of
> Cygwin/XFree86 but have
> > > experience using UNIX . I installed the latest binaries on
> > a Win2K box and
> > > had no problems during installation. The tools all seem to
> > be working fine
> > > but when I tried to start the X server using startxwin.bat,
> > the server
> > > starts OK but none of the xapps started after XWin comes
> > up. Here's XWin
> > > results:
> > >
> > > _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> > > pwin->width = 00000400
> > > pwin->height = 00000300
> > > pwin->paddedWidth = 00000800
> > > pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000010
> > > calling winAllocateFramebufferMemory
> > > calling cfb16ScreenInit( 0a017f40, 23580000, 00000400,
> > 00000300, 00000064,
> > > 00000064, 00000400 )
> > > Successful addition of Screen 0xa018128 0xa017f40
> > > error opening security policy file
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> > > Switch: 0xa017f40, 0xa0203b0
> >
> > That's simply not your fault.
> > I solved it anyway.
> >
> > The original startxwin.bat (NOTE: THERE ARE TWO! It depends
> > on the order you
> > install the X Files, I suggest for the future to create a
> > kind of setup.exe
> > to get a fixed order) uses start /B
> > The /B option isn't supported in Win98 / ME, so it can't work.
> > I manually deleted the /B option from the .bat file, and
> now I got it
> > working.
> > Honestly, I don't know where I've seen the "second"
> > startxwin.bat, one of
> > them was in the devel package, that's the one I use and it
> uses the /B
> > option, which is NT only.
> >
> > Try this..
> >
> > Andreas
> >
>