Xwin only in VGA mode (first time user)

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

Hi
just installed xfree binary 4.0.3, latest cygwin.
some months ago I tried the 4.0 binary also with the same results.
I have a ATI Rage Turbo Pro (Mach64)

obvious problems:
  /etc/X11/rstart was a 0 byte file
     /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/postinst.sh didn't fix that.
  /etc/X11/xserver was a 0 byte file, changed that to a dir with
SecurityPolicy 

etc-x11-vtwm.tar.bz2 problems:
~/.xfbdrc symlinks to /var/xfce/backdrops/Default.xpm
  /var/xfce does not exist
~/.xfwmrc and ~/.xfce3rc ditto.
where do I get the /var/xfce config files from?
etc-x11-vtwm.tar.bz2 doesn't contain them.

startxwin.bat:
DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0;
XFCE_DATA=/usr/X11R6/var; xfce

  this seems to be completely wrong to me...
  /usr/X11R6/var does not exist after the binary install.


/usr/src/cygwin/xfree/xc-4-binaries$ X -screen 0 1280x1024x24  -engine 1
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000000f
winSetEngine () - Using user's preference: 1
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 1274 height 970
      0 [main] X 1380 handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
   2821 [main] X 1380 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to XWin.exe.stackdump
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
/usr/src/cygwin/xfree/xc-4-binaries$ X -screen 0 1280x1024x24  -engine 2
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000000f
winSetEngine () - Using user's preference: 2
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 1274 height 970
winInitVisualsShadowDD () - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff bpRGB: 8
winInitVisualsShadowDD () - Returning
      0 [main] X 1416 handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
   2618 [main] X 1416 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to XWin.exe.stackdump
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
/usr/src/cygwin/xfree/xc-4-binaries$ X -screen 0 1280x1024x24  -engine 4
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000000f
winSetEngine () - Using user's preference: 4
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 1274 height 970
winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff RGB 8 d 24
winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Returning
      0 [main] X 1464 handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
   2639 [main] X 1464 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to XWin.exe.stackdump
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


/usr/src/cygwin/xfree/xc-4-binaries$ X -fullscreen
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
_XSERVTransmkdir: Mode of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to 1777
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000000f
winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f RGB 6 d 16
winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Returning

$chown root /tmp/.X11-unix/
$chmod 1777 /tmp/.X11-unix/
$ls -al  /tmp/.X11-unix/
total 28
drwxrwxrwt   2 root     Kein            0 Apr 17 12:24 ./
drwxrwxrwx   3 administ Kein        28672 Apr 16 19:05 ../

only this seems to work now, but VGA mode only.
and, after running 
  mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc 
the server cannot find the "fixed" font anymore.

-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/