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RE: release of 24 march
- To: "'zaphodb'" <zaphodb at wanadoo dot nl>, win32-x11 at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: RE: release of 24 march
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:56:12 -0500
- Cc: "'cgf at cygnus dot com'" <cgf at cygnus dot com>, "'cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
Oh darn,
Rob you are right. Chris help please or users will drive me nut. The
win32-x11 ftp
are needs its own world.
Why in the world you want to use win32-x11 and starxwin.bat from a Cygwin?
plus why did you not replace xwin.exe from \xwin32\bin with the one from
xwin32-server.tar.bz2.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: zaphodb [mailto:zaphodb@wanadoo.nl]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 7:52 AM
> To: win32-x11@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: release of 24 march
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've downloaded the March 24, 2001: First Stable and
> functional version of
> X-server
> and installed it on my W98 pc. When I start the server from the cygwin
> (1.1.8) shell
> via startxwin.bat, it starts up, I can see a window pop up
> displaying the
> following:
>
> Couldn't open RGB_DB '/XWin32/lib/x11/rgb'
> pwin->width = 00000500
> pwin->heigth=00000400
> pwin-paddedWidth=00000a00
> pwin->bitsperPixel=0000010
>
> Note: I might have missed a leading zero here and there.
>
> I then see the familiar black screen of the server initializing and a
> cursor urging me to wait a bit. Then the server dies and I'm
> back at the cygwin shell. I'm doing this at 1152x864x16 bps and
> the same happens @ 1152x864x8 bps on a Vodoo 550
>
> Is this problem caused by the "Couldn't open RGB_DB
> '/XWin32/lib/x11/rgb'
> " problem or not? This file is present in the directory mentioned and
> readable b.t.w.
>
> I hope this information is of any use.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Zaphod B.
>
> ==== content of startxwin.bat ====
>
> SET DISPLAY=zen:0.0
> SET PATH=%PATH%;\XWIN32\bin
> start XWin -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
>
>
>