RE: Cannot open display problem?

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Yeah,  I remember your fix ;-)  but at my home PC I have a NIC for Cable
Modem
and a Connexant modem.  A properly configured network should not cause this
problem.
You could have multiple modems and NICs in the same PC if everything is
properly configured.

Suhaib


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Greiner [mailto:jeremy@win1.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 1:13 AM
> To: Patrick Hung
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Cannot open display problem?
> 
> 
> I had this problem as far as I remember we established that it was a
> networking issue .. most likely a conflict between NIC and 
> modem .. I fixed
> it (inderectly) by reisntalling win2k the only differences 
> where lack of a
> modem .. so that is why i think it is a NIC and modem issue 
> .. if you have a
> modem (or maybe 2 NICS) try seeing if connecting to the 
> internet (or having
> both NICS connected) and get your IP and connect through that..
> -jeremy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of 
> Patrick Hung
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 12:04 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Cannot open display problem?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am still getting "cannot open display" error message with 
> Windows ME when
> I use xterm, xhost, ...  As described by others, I can run 
> xterm, twm, etc.
> from the other machines (Sun, Windows 98, etc.) but not from 
> the local host
> (Windows ME).  I am using cygwin1.dll from 4/14 snapshot and 
> 4/14 xfree
> binaries.  X is started with the following command.
> 
>     start XWin -engine 1 -screen 0 1024x768x16 -ac
> 
> Please ignore this message if you are still working on this problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Patrick
>