RE: X-Free doesnt work, shady workaround

[Stuart Adamson <stuart dot adamson at evolution dot net>]

Hi,

Can you post the contents of /tmp/XWin.log from after the cygwin
installer version has crashed?

Thanks,

Stuart

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Siddhartha Shivshankar [mailto:s_siddhartha@yahoo.com]
> Sent: 01 July 2002 15:24
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: X-Free doesnt work, shady workaround
> 
> 
> Hello all, hope you're doing good. 
> 
> XFree86 wouldnt load up on my Windows XP 
> machine. I installed practically all of cygwin
> again because I didnt know what the problem was. 
> (no use of that though)
> 
> It keeps giving me the error that there was no
> X server to service requests. The X background
> appears with X clock on twm. But just one mouse click
> destroys the window. 
> 
> ------- Error that I get -------------
> waiting for X server to shut down xterm:  fatal IO error 113
> (Connection aborted
> ) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
> XIO:  fatal IO error 113 (Connection aborted) on X server ":0.0"
>       after 58 requests (49 known processed) with 0 events
> remaining.
> 
> -------- End of error -----------------
> 
> Shady workaround -  
> 
> I left Xfree86 as it was. Then I downloaded pre-compiled 
> binaries from 
> http://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/grads/win32/X11R6.4/
> 
> into a separate folder. Running startx from this new
> new folder somehow brings up X correctly. 
> But the startx in the Cygwin installation just does not
> run. 
> 
> But it seems from some recent posts that I'm not the
> only one having trouble running X. I'd be very grateful
> for a solution. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> Siddhartha. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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