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RE: X server won't start in win95a
- To: "Robert J. Cristel" <rcristel at sprint dot ca>
- Subject: RE: X server won't start in win95a
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:50:38 +1000
- Cc: <cygwin-xfree at xfree86 dot cygwin dot com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert J. Cristel [mailto:rcristel@sprint.ca]
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> Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "robert cristel" <rcristel@sprint.ca>
> > To: <cygwin-xfree@xfree86.cygwin.com>; "Suhaib Siddiqi"
> > <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>; "'Raymond Kwong'"
> > <kwong@control.toronto.edu>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 10:12 PM
> > Subject: RE: X server won't start in win95a
> >
> > >
> > > > I am afraid your Windows is messed. Can
> > > > you not from Control Panel uninstall Networking and
> reinstall it?
> > Perhaps
> > > > that will help.
> > >
> > > Nope. I have no networking. As Raymond says this
> appears to be an
> > > incompatibility with win9x versus winNT. As you know, this is a
> > > different code base.
> >
> > "I have no networking". That is your problem. X _requires_ local tcp
> > communication. Install TCP/IP and a loopback adapter and
> you should be
> > ok.
> >
>
> I have tcp and dialup networking. I meant this is a single
> machine with
> no network card.
Ah, so you _do_ have networking (just not Ethernet based). Can you try
removing and reinstalling that as Suhaib suggested?
Rob