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RE: Can't get up and running on Windows 98
- To: "'Dan Draeger'" <ddraeger at umich dot edu>, "'cygwin-xfree at xfree dot cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at xfree dot cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Can't get up and running on Windows 98
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:21:39 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Draeger [mailto:ddraeger@umich.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 2:06 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@xfree.cygwin.com
> Subject: Can't get up and running on Windows 98
>
>
> I'm using X 4.03. I extracted all the binaries and run
> startxwin.bat in DOS
> and all I get is a blank window with an X-shaped cursor. How
> do I run and X
That means X-server is runing...
you need to edit /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat and remove /B you will find
for xterm etc. Windows 9x/ME does not accept /B option
for start, therefore xterm failed.
Suhaib
> terminal? Here are the messages that come up on the console...
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows 95/98/Me
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 00000007
> winSetEngine () - Using user's preference: 4
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Command line depth: 32,
> using depth: 16
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 1018
> height 704
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 0000f800 000007e0
> 0000001f RGB 6 d 16
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Returning
> error opening security policy file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> Could not init font path element
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing
> from li
> st!
>
> Any ideas?
>