RE: X server won't start in win95a

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Raymond,

Do this:
1) Open an MS-DOS Prompt
2) cd %CYGWIN_ROOT%\usr\X11R6\bin, where %CYGWIN_ROOT% is your Cygwin
installation root, e.g. c:\cygwin
3) Run 'XWin', not startxwin.bat, with no parameters
4) Send in the messages that appear in the MS-DOS Prompt window

If you see absolutely no output, following the above steps, let us know.
Otherwise, send in the output.

Thanks,

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raymond Kwong [mailto:kwong@control.toronto.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 12:03 AM
> To: Harold Hunt
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: X server won't start in win95a
>
>
> Harold:
>
> There is nothing. A window with the XWin title comes out with a
> blank black
> screen and just sits there. When I close it manually, the message says
> "Windows cannot shut down the program automatically, blah blah
> blah...". As I
> said, it seems that the X server starts partially, but would not accept
> connections. If I run startx from the bash prompt, I get the message
> "Waiting for the X server to begin accepting connections" followed by many
> periods. Is there a way to get XWin to reveal its secrets?
>
> Raymond
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:42:06PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
> > Raymond,
> >
> > I need to see the output that XWin.exe generates upon an
> attempted startup.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Harold