RE: Also almost there..

[Hans Göebel <jcgoebel at yahoo dot com>]

Suhaib,

 

Thanks for your help. I tried your suggestion to run startxwin.bat from the DOS prompt. I first ha dto chage the path mentioned in it; it now points to /usr/bin/X11, which does not exist. After that, the resuly was the same as before.

What puzzles me is that there is not a XF86config file in my cygwin directory structure; is it not required for XWin?

Thanks again, any suggestions what to try next?

 

>>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???
>
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>>- 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?