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Re: Xfree86-4_0 installation problem
- To: cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Xfree86-4_0 installation problem
- From: Sorhel at cs dot com
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:05:04 EDT
Hello,
thanks a lot for the answer. There definitely seems to be
something going on with the -screen option and I've tried to
play with it. What is the correct invocation? If I leave it out
completely:
start Xwin -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
I get the same "Direct Draw Init Failed" as before. If I leave out
"-screen 8" but leave in 1024x768x16
start Xwin 1024x768x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
I get what looks like a syntax error from Xwin. Black windows
for xterm.exe and vtwm.exe go up but disappear after 10 seconds
or so, probably because they don't find an X server to connect to.
If I try (I don't know why this should work, and it doesn't...)
start Xwin -screen 0 1024x768x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
I get a grey X screen with the black small "X" cursor in the middle,
and after a second or two an outline of a window (probably an
xterm) shows up in the lower right quarter of the screen. But as
soon as I press the mouse key the whole grey X screen goes
away. In this last case the error message from the Xwin.exe
window is:
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11_unix
should be set to root
pwin->width = 00000400
pwin->height = 00000300
pwin->paddedWidth = 00000800
pwin->bitsperPixel = 00000010
calling WinAllocateFramebufferMemory
calling cfb16ScreenInit( 0a589e0, 147b0000, 00000400,
00000300, 00000064, 00000064, 00000400 )
Successful addition of Screen 0xa058bc8 0xa0589e0
error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/
SecurityPolicy
I don't know if the thing about SecurityPolicy is a problem
but I've noticed the file doesn't exist on my system. I've also
discovered that many of the links in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 point
to non-existent files. They point to /etc/X11 files but this
directory does not exist on my system. I built my system
with the most recent files of
xfree86-4_0-DLLs_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-Xnest_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-Xprt_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-Xterm_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-devel_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-fonts_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-prog_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-rgb_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-twm_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-xvfb_tar.bz2
xfree86-4_0-xwin_tar.bz2
Any help is most appreciated!
Thanks,
Soren
> Hi,
>
> I am sorry for probably breaking the thread tree since I am a newcomer
> to this mailing list and cannot reply directly to the article which I
> founded in the archive.
>
> I had just the same problem when using the startxwin.bat script as
> provided in the archive. It is caused by the option "-screen 8" for
> XWin.exe added in the script. Please remove the option and try again.
> Hoping it helps you.
>
> Regards,
> Hajime Murao
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm running Windows NT / Build 1381 / Service Pack 5
>> on a Siemens Nixdorf laptop.
>>
>> I've installed the latest Cygwin version using the
>> set-up script and it works. I've then installed the
>> latest Xfree86-4_0 files from a mirror (ftp.franken.de).
>> When I try to start the Xwin server with the startxwin.bat
>> script from an MS-DOS window, I get the following
>> messages:
>>
>> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11_unix
>> should be set to root
>> pwin->width = 00000500
>> pwin->height = 00000400
>> pwin->paddedWidth = 00000a000
>> pwin->bitsperPixel = 00000010
>> Calling WinAllocateFramebufferMemory
>>
>> Then a window pops up saying
>>
>> ERROR
>> Direct Draw Init Failed
>> Error = 88760078 (unknown error)
>>
>> I don't know how to fix the first problem (ownership)
>> under Cygwin since I don't know about users.
>> My /etc/passwd does not have a root in it, and
>> I don't have an adduser script or equivalent anywhere.
>> I can't do a chown on the directory since root doesn't
>> exist. But I don't think that's the main problem anyway.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Soren