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Re: Help, I can't get X started!
- To: "Archai Valkryn" <avalkryn at hotmail dot com>
- Subject: Re: Help, I can't get X started!
- From: Andrew Markebo <flognat at flognat dot myip dot org>
- Date: 01 Nov 2001 16:35:51 +0100
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at xfree86 dot cygwin dot com
- References: <F2041MSc0Xd4zf8MtGp0001212a@hotmail.com>
| The first problem I ran into was a username with a space in it. This
| is a single user machine, and logs me on as Archai Valkryn. That
| space wreaked havoc with pathnames. Eventually, I got it sorted out.
Who was wreaked havoc? bash? Cygwin? cygwin x? /etc/passwd?
| ...and turned to trying to get an X session up. It won't go. If I
| just try to run xwin.exe directly, it gives an error about not being
| able to find cygwinx.dll. I assume that's a bad thing.
cygwinx.dll?? Thats new, haven't seen it before.. I think?
| The install also didn't give me a startxwin.bat file--anywhere. What next?
How did you install, which files did you grabb from where?
/Andy
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