RE: X server won't start in win95a

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

OK now stop talking round about, please..... we asked you a couple of time
that sprovide details of your messages... it is a no go and it does not work
on my win98 and microsoft has two sources for windows those mails are
useless and no can help you here.  If you want someone to help you, send
detail of your problems 

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert J. Cristel [mailto:rcristel@sprint.ca] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 2:58 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@xfree.cygwin.com; Suhaib Siddiqi; 'Raymond Kwong'
> Subject: RE: X server won't start in win95a
> 
> 
> 
> > I am afraid your Windows is messed.  Can
> > you not from Control Panel uninstall Networking and 
> reinstall it?  Perhaps
> > that will help.
> 
> Nope.  I have no networking. 
> > What do you mean by "no networking"  without TCP/IP you cannot use 
> > X.
> Just a single machine with dialup.
> 
>  As Raymond says this appears to be an
> incompatibility with win9x versus winNT.  As you know, this is a
> different code base.
> > explain???? Which code base????
> 
> Microsoft internally has two different Windows sources, one 
> is Win9x and
> the other is WinNT.  
> 
> But this isn't the problem as Raymond has Cygwin/XFree 
> working on both. 
> However, X doesn't work on my Win98 2nd installation.  I 
> would be happy
> to supply you with a message dump if that would be helpful.  It would
> require some sort of setup because X just comes up for a one 
> second and
> you don't really see anything.
> 
> -Robert Cristel
> Montreal, Canada
>