RE: Xfree on Win98?

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

At present Windows 98/95 are not supported.  You should cosnider reading FAQ
and mail archives please!

You may consider using X-server-1.0 archive from "contrib" directory.  It is
not based
upon XFree86, and uses no Cygwin, but should work on Windows 95/98 in
Single-Windowed mode.

It should be installed in \usr not c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6 directory... just to
warn you before
you start posting without reading FAQ and doing a search on mail archives.

Suhaib

>
> I am running Win98SE, my display adapter is a Matrox
> Millenium G400 and my
> display is a 17"-95kHz monitor! Cygwin is installed
> completely but root is
> mounted in textmode!
>
> I have installed all archives from the ftp server and I am running the
> current release of Cygwin. But when invoking startxwin.bat, i.e.:
> ======================================
> @echo off
> SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> SET
> PATH=.;C:\Cygwin\bin;.;C:\Cygwin\usr\local\bin;C:\Cygwin\usr\X
> 11R6\bin;%PATH
> %
> start XWin -screen 8 1024x768x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
> start xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black
> start rxvt -fn "Lucidia Console-12"
> start vtwm
> ======================================
>
> by double clicking in Explorer some dos windows do appear and
> after a short
> while the X11 screen comes up with the X-cross centered on
> the screen. At
> this time no keyboard nor any mouse movement can be made. The
> system does
> hang completely, so the only thing to do is power off!
>
> The same thing (but without those dos-windows ;) happens when I invoke
> startxwin out of may bash window!
>
> Has anyone Xfree X-server running on WIn98? And did this one
> has to fix
> similar problems? Or has anybody any setting which can help
> the X-server to
> run?
>
> Claus
>
>