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Re: X server won't start in win95a
- To: "robert cristel" <rcristel at sprint dot ca>,<cygwin-xfree at xfree86 dot cygwin dot com>,"Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>,"'Raymond Kwong'" <kwong at control dot toronto dot edu>
- Subject: Re: X server won't start in win95a
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:17:14 +1000
- References: <3B2F41AA.7EB3F0B4@sprint.ca>
----- Original Message -----
From: "robert cristel" <rcristel@sprint.ca>
To: <cygwin-xfree@xfree86.cygwin.com>; "Suhaib Siddiqi"
<ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>; "'Raymond Kwong'"
<kwong@control.toronto.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 10:12 PM
Subject: RE: X server won't start in win95a
>
> > I am afraid your Windows is messed. Can
> > you not from Control Panel uninstall Networking and reinstall it?
Perhaps
> > that will help.
>
> Nope. I have no networking. As Raymond says this appears to be an
> incompatibility with win9x versus winNT. As you know, this is a
> different code base.
"I have no networking". That is your problem. X _requires_ local tcp
communication. Install TCP/IP and a loopback adapter and you should be
ok.
Rob
> -Robert Cristel
> Montreal, Canada
>
>