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Re: Cannot start Cygwin/X
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 10:23:51 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Cannot start Cygwin/X
- References: <20040531220141.29650.qmail@web61107.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 31 May 2004, Yu Yu wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I downloaded and installed the Cygwin/X.
>
> But when I typed "startx" in Cygwin, it froze after
> displaying the following messages: (It seems there was
> some problems with the DISPLAY)
How do you know it froze? Describe what you see on the screen.
Do you have a personal firewall or VPN software installed?
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 4.3.0.57
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
This is a rather old version. Please upgrade to the latest version.
The packages are now called xorg-x11-*
bye
ago
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