RE: Xwin only in VGA mode (first time user)

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> Hi
> just installed xfree binary 4.0.3, latest cygwin.
> some months ago I tried the 4.0 binary also with the same results.
> I have a ATI Rage Turbo Pro (Mach64)
> 

Operating system version and Service packs if any?


> obvious problems:
>   /etc/X11/rstart was a 0 byte file
>      /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/postinst.sh didn't fix that.
>   /etc/X11/xserver was a 0 byte file, changed that to a dir with
> SecurityPolicy 

postinst.sh is useless for us, if you copied it from sources tar-balls or
elsewhere.

> 
> etc-x11-vtwm.tar.bz2 problems:
> ~/.xfbdrc symlinks to /var/xfce/backdrops/Default.xpm
>   /var/xfce does not exist
> ~/.xfwmrc and ~/.xfce3rc ditto.
> where do I get the /var/xfce config files from?

Look into contrib directory

> etc-x11-vtwm.tar.bz2 doesn't contain them.

no it does not because it does not belong there.

> 
> startxwin.bat:
> DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0;
> XFCE_DATA=/usr/X11R6/var; xfce
> 
>   this seems to be completely wrong to me...

It is correct, if you install xfce, or compile xfce yourself.

>   /usr/X11R6/var does not exist after the binary install.
> 

Create it.  
mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/var is the command to create it.

> 
> /usr/src/cygwin/xfree/xc-4-binaries$ X -screen 0 1280x1024x24 
>  -engine 1
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000000f
> winSetEngine () - Using user's preference: 1
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 1274 
> height 970


Are you sure your video driver can handle DirectX and or your resolution you
are trying to shoot???????????????????????????


>       0 [main] X 1380 handle_exceptions: Exception: 
> STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
>    2821 [main] X 1380 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to 
> XWin.exe.stackdump
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> /usr/src/cygwin/xfree/xc-4-binaries$ X -screen 0 1280x1024x24 
>  -engine 2
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000000f
> winSetEngine () - Using user's preference: 2
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 1274 
> height 970
> winInitVisualsShadowDD () - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff bpRGB: 8
> winInitVisualsShadowDD () - Returning



Are you sure your video driver can handle DirectX and or your resolution you
are trying to shoot???????????????????????????


>       0 [main] X 1416 handle_exceptions: Exception: 
> STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
>    2618 [main] X 1416 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to 
> XWin.exe.stackdump
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> /usr/src/cygwin/xfree/xc-4-binaries$ X -screen 0 1280x1024x24 
>  -engine 4
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000000f
> winSetEngine () - Using user's preference: 4
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 1274 
> height 970
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 
> 000000ff RGB 8 d 24
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Returning
>       0 [main] X 1464 handle_exceptions: Exception: 
> STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
>    2639 [main] X 1464 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to 
> XWin.exe.stackdump
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> 



Are you sure your video driver can handle DirectX and or your resolution you
are trying to shoot???????????????????????????



> /usr/src/cygwin/xfree/xc-4-binaries$ X -fullscreen
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Mode of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to 1777
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000000f
> winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 
> 0000001f RGB 6 d 16
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Returning





>From this it look like you'r exceeding your resolution limits.



> 
> $chown root /tmp/.X11-unix/
> $chmod 1777 /tmp/.X11-unix/
> $ls -al  /tmp/.X11-unix/
> total 28
> drwxrwxrwt   2 root     Kein            0 Apr 17 12:24 ./
> drwxrwxrwx   3 administ Kein        28672 Apr 16 19:05 ../
> 
> only this seems to work now, but VGA mode only.
> and, after running 
>   mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc 
> the server cannot find the "fixed" font anymore.
> 


Why do you have to rebuild font.dir file?  Was it corrupted?  It worked for
you with xwin -fullscreen mode... then you try to rebuild and perhaps madea
mistake or something is wrong on your system and you corrupted it.


Suhib

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