Re: X server won't start in win95a

[Raymond Kwong <kwong at control dot toronto dot edu>]

Harold:

I followed your steps. There is absolutely no output: the cursor just sits
there blinking. Again I have to shut it down manually.

In case you missed it earlier, the DXWin32 and the Xvnc servers both start,
although they are excruciatingly slow. I hope this "lack of information" is
useful to you!

Raymond

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:06:29AM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
> Raymond,
> 
> Do this:
> 1) Open an MS-DOS Prompt
> 2) cd %CYGWIN_ROOT%\usr\X11R6\bin, where %CYGWIN_ROOT% is your Cygwin
> installation root, e.g. c:\cygwin
> 3) Run 'XWin', not startxwin.bat, with no parameters
> 4) Send in the messages that appear in the MS-DOS Prompt window
> 
> If you see absolutely no output, following the above steps, let us know.
> Otherwise, send in the output.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Harold
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Raymond Kwong [mailto:kwong@control.toronto.edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 12:03 AM
> > To: Harold Hunt
> > Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: X server won't start in win95a
> >
> >
> > Harold:
> >
> > There is nothing. A window with the XWin title comes out with a
> > blank black
> > screen and just sits there. When I close it manually, the message says
> > "Windows cannot shut down the program automatically, blah blah
> > blah...". As I
> > said, it seems that the X server starts partially, but would not accept
> > connections. If I run startx from the bash prompt, I get the message
> > "Waiting for the X server to begin accepting connections" followed by many
> > periods. Is there a way to get XWin to reveal its secrets?
> >
> > Raymond
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:42:06PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
> > > Raymond,
> > >
> > > I need to see the output that XWin.exe generates upon an
> > attempted startup.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Harold