Re: basic stuff

["Arek \(James Potts\)" <james at verge-rpg dot com>]

I'm not exactly an expert on this, but It looks to me like you need to
update DirectX if you can.  Point your browser to
http://www.microsoft.com/directx for details.

I hope this helps....

James Potts
(webmaster@verge-net.com)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ling F. Zhang" <lingfengz@yahoo.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 8:22 PM
Subject: basic stuff


> I just got started with xfree86/cygwin..and I
> basically followed instruction on the user guide
> online when I do the installation...
> when I type startx (or XWin or use
> startxwin.bat)...the following err message appear:
>
> $
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be
> set to root
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows 95/98/Me
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported
> engines 00000007
> winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient
> width 640 height 480
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 0000f800 000007e0
> 0000001f RGB 6 d 16
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Returning
> error opening security policy file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> Could not init font path element
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from li
> st!
>
> I am particularily concern with the first one about
> not being root and one of the last ones about could
> not init font path and SecurityPolicy...
> is there anything wrong? how should I go about
> configurating it...I should not that XFree86 can start
> and I am able to work with windows manager like vtwm.
>
> meanwhile, here's another problem:
> when xfree86 starts, it annoyingly uses usr/sh as its
> shell, I would like to use bash but don't want to run
> it everytime I start xfree86? any solution?
>
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