Re: Xfree on Win98?

["Francis VIVAT" <francis dot vivat at cetp dot ipsl dot fr>]

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----- Message d'origine -----
De : <lebarre@us.ibm.com>
À : <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Envoyé : vendredi 27 octobre 2000 20:10
Objet : RE: Xfree on Win98?


> That's IT!
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> I'm tired of all this fucking bickering and backstabbing.  I'm outta here.
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> To:   cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
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> Subject:  RE: Xfree on Win98?
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> At present Windows 98/95 are not supported.  You should cosnider reading
> FAQ
> and mail archives please!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Suhaib
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> > 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!
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> > 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
> > ======================================
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> > 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!
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> > The same thing (but without those dos-windows ;) happens when I invoke
> > startxwin out of may bash window!
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> > 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
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