RE: Also almost there..

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

>L.S.

>I have a problem that looks a bit like the one reported recently by John
Turner; however, the solution outlined for >him does not work for me.
>This is what I did:
>- installed Cygwin 1.1.4 on my machine (PIII, TNT2 video card). This was
the first time I used Cygwin, so no chance >for B20.1 or other versions.


I hope people stop thinking of B20.1.  That word is engraved in some user
mind
so deep that Cygwin can be on B20.1 but nothing else???


>- downloaded all xfree86-4.0-* tar.bz2 files
>- untarred into toplevel cygwin dir, so installation is under /usr/X11R6
>- added /usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/X11R6/lib in front of the path in
/etc/profile; the path is OK according to bash.
>- entered "startxwin.bat" at the bash prompt.(XWin -screen 8 1024x768x16
has the same effect)

You DO NOT enter startxwin.bat at the BASH prompt.  That is your problem.
The batch files
are for DOS.  For BASH, use startx script which ships with xfree86. OR WRITE
YOUR OWN.


>A few DOS boxes with xwin, xterm etc. flash over the screen, then the
screen becomes black, with just a small >>hour->glass shaped cursor, which
can be moved around. For the rest, the machine is completely frozen, only
the reset >button gets it alive again.
>Two times there was a "lost cluster" on the disk after reboot that
contained a listing of messages just as John >reported, apart that the text
stops after "error opening security policy file
>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy".
>I did a few experiments to see what could be happening:
>- I did rebuild all font .dir files as recommended to John, but this does
not help.
>- it looks like the Xserver is running, trying to point an xterm from a
linux box did not give any errors on the >linux side, only nothing was
visible at the windws side!
>- the xterm on the cygwin/windows machine does work with the MIX Xserver,
only it reports that sh is not available, >but I do not think this could be
the problem.

>Any suggestions how to get this to work, or at least to get some more info
(logfiles etc) about what is going >wrong?
>Any configuration files that should be changed?