RE: Cannot start Xfree86

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

You nee to put this in your Config.sys and reboot.

shell=C:\Command.com /e:4096 /p

I suggest get ride of Zone Alaram, and replace it with Tinyfirewall
(http://www.tinysoftware.com). Tinyfirewall is better, at least does not
mess around
With display.  When promptem for "trying to conect xxx" check the box for
permanent.. and hit Permit button.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pellegrino Fabio [mailto:fpellegr@ee.ethz.ch]
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 3:01 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Cannot start Xfree86
> 
> Andy,
> thanks you very much for your answer, but now, when I start the
> startxwin.bat, I get twice the Message of running out of resources :(
> Well, I think it's better to go the way of the bash shell, that is more
> stable, but as I said, really small and I see only the window of Xterm
> white
> in a low resolution...
> 
> Out of environment, the environment variables fills out the space for
> them, add
> 
> SHELL=X:\PATH\COMMAND.COM /P /E:NNNN
> 
> Make sure x:\path\command.com points to command.com, probably
> something like c:\windows\command.com, start with 2048 as NNNN
> 
> For starters, turn off zone alarm, maybe uninstall it, to make it easy
> to get started sort of..
> 
>         /Andy
> 
> / "Pellegrino Fabio" <fpellegr@ee.ethz.ch> wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> | I know I'm a newbie but I hope not a lost case. I posted my question
> | yesterday but got no answer, perhaps I'm really a lost case :) So, I
> post
> it
> | again in the hope, that someone can help me:
> | I downloaded the cygwin and the Xfree in Windows 98 SE as it is
> explained
> | three days ago, and I have installed it. After the installation I
> started
> | the startxwin.bat from a MS-Dos Prompt, and it's telling me for first,
> that
> | it is running out of resources. Then several MS-Dos Prompts open and the
> | Zone Alarm Firewall ask the permissions for RXVT.exe and then for
> Xwin.exe,
> | Xterm and for last twm. But no difference what I make (If I give the
> | permission or not) all the MS-Dos prompts closes and it remains the
> | startxwin Window who is terminated. But for one time, the X Server
> showed
> up
> | and closed after a few seconds. Naturally, I looked for a answer in the
> | mailing lists, and I tried several things, but nothing helped.
> | Then, as mentioned in the installation note, I tried to run X Server
> from
> | the cygwin bash shell, but it doesnt work. In a lucky case the X Server
> | started, but in a very low resolution and the window was really small.
> | Usually, every time I start the X Server from the bash shell, I get this
> | anwer:
> |
> | _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
> | winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - Window Client width 640 height 480
> | winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 000f800 000007 e0 0000001f RGB 6 d
> 16
> | winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Returning
> | _XSERVTransSocketUNIXAccept: accept () failed
> | XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server " :0.0"
> |      After 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> |
> | Waiting for X server to shut down.
> |
> | Here is my startxwin.bat file:
> | @echo off
> | SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> | SET PATH=%PATH%;\usr\X11R6\bin;\cygwin\bin;\cygwin\usr\bin
> | start XWin -screen 0 1024x768x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0 -engine -
> 4
> | start  xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e bash
> | start  rxvt -fn "Lucidia Console-12"
> | start  twm
> |
> | I checked also my resolution in the Windows System, and it set at 16 and
> my
> | graphic card is a Chips 65555. The only time, that the X Server showed
> up,
> | it seems like to be in RGB mode...Have I to install the driver again in
> | MS-Dos Mode?
> | I don't know, if I must have an initial file like .emacs or .bashrc. I
> think
> | not, on the how-to page it is not mentioned, or I haven't seen it.
> |
> | Could someone give me a good advise in this really basic configuration,
> I
> | think?
> |
> | Thank You in advance
> |
> | Fabio
>