Re: Xfree86-4_0 installation problem

[Sorhel at cs dot com]

Hello,

thanks a lot for the answer.  There definitely seems to be 
something going on with the -screen option and I've tried to 
play with it.  What is the correct invocation?  If I leave it out 
completely:

start Xwin -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0

I get the same "Direct Draw Init Failed" as before.  If I leave out
"-screen 8" but leave in 1024x768x16

start Xwin 1024x768x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0

I get what looks like a syntax error from Xwin.  Black windows
for xterm.exe and vtwm.exe go up but disappear after 10 seconds
or so, probably because they don't find an X server to connect to.

If I try (I don't know why this should work, and it doesn't...)

start Xwin -screen 0 1024x768x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0

I get a grey X screen with the black small "X" cursor in the middle, 
and after a second or two an outline of a window (probably an 
xterm) shows up in the lower right quarter of the screen.  But as 
soon as I press the mouse key the whole grey X screen goes 
away.   In this last case the error message from the Xwin.exe 
window is:

_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11_unix
should be set to root
pwin->width = 00000400
pwin->height = 00000300
pwin->paddedWidth = 00000800
pwin->bitsperPixel = 00000010
calling WinAllocateFramebufferMemory
calling cfb16ScreenInit( 0a589e0, 147b0000, 00000400,
00000300, 00000064, 00000064, 00000400 )
Successful addition of Screen 0xa058bc8 0xa0589e0
error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/
SecurityPolicy

I don't know if the thing about SecurityPolicy is a problem
but I've noticed the file doesn't exist on my system.  I've also
discovered that many of the links in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 point
to non-existent files.  They point to /etc/X11 files but this
directory does not exist on my system.  I built my system
with the most recent files of

xfree86-4_0-DLLs_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-Xnest_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-Xprt_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-Xterm_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-devel_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-fonts_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-prog_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-rgb_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-twm_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-xvfb_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-xwin_tar.bz2

Any help is most appreciated!

Thanks,
Soren

> Hi,
>
> I am sorry for probably breaking the thread tree since I am a newcomer
> to this mailing list and cannot reply directly to the article which I
> founded in the archive.
>
> I had just the same problem when using the startxwin.bat script as
> provided in the archive. It is caused by the option "-screen 8" for
> XWin.exe added in the script. Please remove the option and try again.
> Hoping it helps you.
> 
> Regards,
> Hajime Murao
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm running Windows NT / Build 1381 / Service Pack 5
>> on a Siemens Nixdorf laptop.
>> 
>> I've installed the latest Cygwin version using the
>> set-up script and it works.  I've then installed the
>> latest Xfree86-4_0 files from a mirror (ftp.franken.de).
>> When I try to start the Xwin server with the startxwin.bat 
>> script from an MS-DOS window, I get the following 
>> messages:
>> 
>> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11_unix
>> should be set to root
>> pwin->width = 00000500
>> pwin->height = 00000400
>> pwin->paddedWidth = 00000a000
>> pwin->bitsperPixel = 00000010
>> Calling WinAllocateFramebufferMemory
>> 
>> Then a window pops up saying
>> 
>> ERROR
>> Direct Draw Init Failed
>> Error = 88760078 (unknown error)
>> 
>> I don't know how to fix the first problem (ownership)
>> under Cygwin since I don't know about users.
>> My /etc/passwd does not have a root in it, and
>> I don't have an adduser script or equivalent anywhere.
>> I can't do a chown on the directory since root doesn't
>> exist.  But I don't think that's the main problem anyway.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Soren