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Re: startx hang (6.7.0.0-9)


On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Niall Gormley wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've installed the latest cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-5.0 jewel 1.5.10(0.116/4/2))
> and the 6.7.0.0-9 release of cygwin-xfree.
> 
> When running startx (or XWin directly)
> 
> The XWin system hangs halfway through startup @ the following line:
> 
> ....
> ....
> ....
> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
> MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
> XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack
> of shar
> ed memory support in the kernel
> (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
> (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00001809" (00001809)
> (EE) Keyboardlayout "Irish" (00001809) is unknown
> Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options =
> "(null)"

Hm. It is stuck when loading the keyboard definition. 
Does XWin -kb work?

> I have installed this with no success on 2 computers now!!
> 
> I've tries mounting the tmp filesystem as a block device, and running XWin
> directly. 

do you mean binmode? You can't mount directories as block devices. Only in
textmode and binmode. What does the mount command report?

BTW: DO you know the layout code for the irish keyboard? I'll add "ie" to the
list of predifined keyboards.

bye
	ago
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