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RE: PLEASE can anyone help?
- To: "Sylvan Katz" <jskatz at sk dot sympatico dot ca>,"cygwin-xfree" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: PLEASE can anyone help?
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:19:53 +1100
- Thread-Index: AcA30xJD6Wlm1dwFSQmHLLKEwAkbwQABTyWQ
- Thread-Topic: PLEASE can anyone help?
Are you and administrator or normal user on the machine?
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sylvan Katz [mailto:jskatz@sk.sympatico.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, 17 October 2000 11:42 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree
> Subject: PLEASE can anyone help?
>
>
> Anyone:
>
> I am trying to get Xwin running on my NT 4.0 SP 6.0. I am not
> a software developer I am a researcher who runs 2 NT
> machines and a Linux box. I need an Xserver so I can work on
> my Linux box from one of my NT machines. I maintain an Oracle
> DB on the Linux box and I query it with Perl scripts. I had
> hoped that Xwin would do the trick. Cygwin installed okay and
> the Xserver starts but I get an "acquire keyboard" error and
> there is no keyboard input available. I am running a LogiTech
> PC/AT Keyboard (84-Key) - US English - cordless keyboard. If
> you think that Xwin is too unstable to use then I shall move to MI/X.
>
> Thank you
> Dr. Sylvan Katz
> Saskatoon, Sask
>
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