RE: error starting xfree

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Your windows is set to 8 bps and you are trying to use 32 bps.  8 bps is
buggy is current binary release.  You need to change your windows display
resolution to 16 or 32, and use same for xwin

suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brooks Rownd [mailto:bkr@lmtsun.astro.umass.edu]
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 6:01 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: error starting xfree
> 
> 
>   I'm running a newly-installed xfree 4.0.3 and cygwin on top of
> Win98.  X won't start from either startxwin.bat (within Win98)
> or startx (within cygwin).  Here is my startxwin.bat:
> 
> @echo off
> SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> SET PATH=%PATH%;\usr\X11R6\bin;\cygwin\bin;\cygwin\usr\bin
> XWin -screen 0 800x600x32
> start .\twm
> 
> Here are the error messages:
> 
> _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 Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> winAdjustedVideoModeShadowDDNL <> - Command line depth: 32, using depth: 8
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed <> - WindowClient width 800 height 600
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL <> - Masks 00000000 00000000 00000000 RGB 0 d 8
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL <> - Calling miSetVisualTypesAndMasks
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL <> - Returning
>       0 [main] XWIN 355809 handle_exceptions: Exception:
> STATUS_INTEGER_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO
>    1031 [main] XWIN 355809 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
> XWIN.EXE.stackdump
> 
>   The X window opens and closes immediately.  I could include the
> stackdump
> if it helps.
> 
>   Using startx I get the same, with a different error message:
> 
>       0 [main] X 353093 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
> XWIN.EXE.stackdump
> 
> 
> thanks,
>   brooks
> bkr@lmtgtm.org