RE: Newbie: XWin Crashes PC

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

Sorry you are out of luck on Win 9x.  Stable relase will not work
on Win 9x/Me.  You can try Harold Test 7, Follow mail archive for details on
how to
get Harold Test 7.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kartic Krishnamurthy [mailto:kaygee@netset.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 4:49 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Newbie: XWin Crashes PC
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed Cygwin for using the XFree
> functionality.  The install of Cygwin 1.1.4 went on well and then I
> bunzipped/untarred the Xfree packages (all except the
> programmers library package) under Cygdrive/ as per the web
> site instructions.
>
> My problem is that when I start startxwin.bat (both
> dblclicking from explorer and running from bash shell), my PC
> hangs!  The screen
> becomes white and the familiar X mouse pointer appears but
> then my PC does not respond - not even to Ctrl-Alt-Del.
> After restart, I
> tried executing xwin directly from the bash prompt as:
> ---------------------
> Bash Prompt> DISPLAY=localhost:0
> Bash Prompt> ./xwin -screen 0 800x600x16 -whitepixel 255
> -blackpixel 0 -query xserverhost (I have a UNIX machine running X)
> ---------------------
> (I also tried screen 0 1024x768x16 and all numbers from
> screen 0 to 8...)...I know for a fact that it connects to the
> UNIX machine
> as it displays the small gray checked background of the UNIX
> X server BUT...no login box and again the PC hangs.
>
> Could someone please tell me what's going on!
>
> I am running Cygwin 1.1.4 on a Win 98 PC.  The graphics card
> is a TNT or NVIDIA ... sorry I don't have more info on that.
>
> BTW, I have one more question.  I have XWin32 from Starnet on
> the same PC (it was not running when I tried Cygwin-Xfree!).  When I
> run XWin32 and try to run rxvt or xterm from the Cygwin
> distribution, nothing happens, literally nothing happens.  Both return
> silently to the bash prompt without throwing any errors.  I
> set the display variable to localhost before running
> xterm/rxvt.  Is it
> some kind of a protocol mismatch?  XWin32 claims to be
> compliant with X Consortium protocols and I guess that
> Cygwin-Xfree is also
> compliant.  Then why is rxvt/xterm from Cygwin not able to
> launch when the local X server is Xwin32?
>
> Please help.
>
> Thanks
> --Kartic
>