RE: Cannot start X server

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

No luck on Win98, Sorry.
Refer to FAQ and mailing list please and also the notes in my previous posts
that Win9x/Me are not supported.  

Harold posting was sometimes in November 2000.  Check
ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/cygwin/xfree/test.
If you a "test7" keyword search on Cygwin/Xfree86 mail archives you will hot
his post.

.xinitrc will not run because, in fact, x-server did not run on your
Win98SE. ;-)
Win9x/me use Mutex16 from Eve and Adam times, while Win NT and Win2K use
Mutex from
Bill Clinton Presidency time.  We are using 32 bit Mutex to get a  surface
lock and so-called
Microsoft 32-bit Win9x/Me which are cluttered with 8-bit crap cannot get a
proper lock
of the surface.  Harold is working on fixing this problem but no time frame
when 
a final and stable version will be available.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon S. Berndt [mailto:jsb@hal-pc.org]
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 7:05 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Cannot start X server
> 
> 
> I am using Windows 98SE. Here are the options for "start" on Win98SE:
> 
> /m[inimized] Run the new program minimized (in the background).
> /max[imized] Run the new program maximized (in the foreground).
> /r[estored]  Run the new program restored (in the 
> foreground). [default]
> /w[ait]      Does not return until the other program exits.
> 
> 
> Which one of these corresponds to /B?
> 
> What does vtwm do that twm does not do?
> 
> Can you tell me approximately when the posting from Harold 
> about the test
> case would have been made? that might help me sort through the mail
> archives.
> 
> Also, can you tell me why .xinitrc does not appear to get run when the
> xserver is started up?
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
> Subject: RE: Cannot start X server
> 
> 
> > Could you post your OS please?
> >
> > start /B is an option on my Windows NT 4 and Win2K.
> >
> > vtwm is in "contrib" directory.
> >
> > true xdm only root can work at the moment.  I plan on 
> fixing gid and uid
> > issues with xdm.
> >
> > In case you are using Win9x/Me then it won't work on it.  
> In that case you
> > need to try Harold "test case" from "test" directory.  
> Please dig mail
> > archive
> > on how he and users got it working.  Other alternative is to use
> > X-server-1.0 from
> > contrib directory and install it in c:\usr not c:\cygwin\usr.
> 
>