RE: Can't Open Display

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Hmm...

That's two non-working Cygwin/XFree86 installations with other X servers
installed.  One of them has Omni-X, the other has Exceed.

Anyone else noticing a pattern here?

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Jeremy Greiner
> Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 2:22 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Can't Open Display
>
>
> I have had this problem for some time now and was going to reformat
> (sometime eventually when I had time) but hey for
> eduacational purposes here
> is my complete installation and config info:
> AMD Athlon 700
> DFI something or another MOBO
> Voodoo 3 3500
> Realtech 8139 NIC
> Zoltrix winmodem
> Ensonique Audio PCI Sound Card
> HP - USB CD-Writer
> 2x DVDDrive (on secondary IDE)
> 30G Western Digital HD
>      3 partitions 5, 10, 15
> Belkin Optikal Mouse
> Floppy drive
> Memorex quiet key keyboard
>
> Software:
> Win2k (not service packed)
> DirectX 7 (not 8)
> Media Player 7
> IE 5.5
> Voodoo 3500 Visual Reality TV
> Cygwin (latest version downloaded a week ago)
> Half Life
> Starcraft
> Age of Empires 2
> Adobe Premiere
> Adobe photoshop
> Oni
> MS Visual J++
> WinDVD
> Diablo 2
> AIM
> Disk Dump
> Office 2000
> Omni-x 6.2
> Winzip and other misc apps like that.
>
> also I would like to add that when the xserver is not running
> it takes xterm
> a couple of seconds (like 10) as apposed if the x server
> (both omni x or
> Xwin) is started Xterm comes back right away saying it cannot
> open display
> 127.0.0.1:0 (I have tried my ip and varations on the port)
> hope this helps
> -jeremy
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Harold Hunt
> Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 12:48 AM
> To: 'Enoch Wu'; dambik@indiana.edu; kdekorte@yahoo.com
> Cc: Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: Can't Open Display
>
>
> I'll admit that I'm no expert on why X would refuse
> connections from clients
> running on the local machine.
>
> Therefore, I call on you guys to tell us what it is that is
> unique about
> your software configurations that causes this problem.  I
> would be willing
> to bet that if any of you grabbed a spare hard drive and
> installed Windows,
> Cygwin, and Cygwin/XFree86 from scratch, without installing any other
> programs, your X clients would be able to connect to the X server.
>
> Prove me wrong.
>
> Tell us why Cygwin/XFree86 does not work on your machine.
>
> I think I speak for most of the list when I humbly say that I
> have no idea
> what is causing your problems.
>
> Good luck, and I look forward to hearing what the problem is,
>
> Harold
>
>
>
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