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RE: Can't Open Display
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: Can't Open Display
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 17:22:32 -0400
Is it DirectX 8 or 8a? M$ release recently the 8a to fix the very buggy DX
8.
This something on your machine, if you cannot open display and ping
localhost.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin DeKorte [mailto:kdekorte@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 5:15 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Can't Open Display
>
>
> All,
>
> Well it looks like progress has been made on the
> visuals of Cygwin/XFree but I am still having the same
> problem I had 2 months ago.
>
> Configuration:
>
> Windows 2K Professional
> SP1
> DirectX 8
>
> Cygwin 1.1.8
> Xfree 4.0.3 + Harold's XWin binary.
>
> Run startxwin from the dos prompt and I get the screen
> up in a window (very nice Harold) and I can move the
> mouse around. However, twm and xfree both give the
> message
>
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>xterm Xt error: Can't open
> display: 127.0.0.1:0.0
> twm: unable to open display "127.0.0.1:0.0"
>
> I can ping 127.0.0.1 just fine. Can ping localhost
> fine.
>
> I have a socks proxy, but have disabled that and I get
> the same results.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Kevin
>
>
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