Fwd: Re: X server won't start in win95a

[Raymond Kwong <kwong at control dot toronto dot edu>]

I am sorry that I was not clear. My startxwin.bat is the same as that
provided in the distribution, with 16 replacing 32, since I am running a
16 bit display, and with the /Bs removed. There are no messages
displayed in the DOS window.

What I mean by the bash prompt chaning to XWin is that the title of the
prompt window changes to XWin. I don't mean that the window changes to
an X server window! 

My .xinitrc is standard:
#!/bin/bash
export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
export PATH=.:$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin
xterm -sb -sl 1024 -font 9x15 -e /bin/bash &
twm

My .xserverrc is also standard:
#!/bin/bash
exec XWin -screen 0 1024x768x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0 -engine 4

I have tried options such as -fullscreen, -ac, with the same results.

The same setup on my windows 2000 thinkpad works fine.

Many thanks for your fast response.

Raymond

On 14 Jun, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> 
> 
>> I recently installed cygwin and cygwin-xfree 4.0.3. 
>> Everything works except
>> for the X server. If I run startxwin.bat, XWin window comes 
>> up but does not
>> change into the X root window. Xterm and vtwm then come up, 
>> stay for a while
>> and exit. XWin window stays black and blank and does not 
>> exit. I need to kill
>> it manually. There are no error messages for XWin.
> 
> 
> We need more info. 
> post your startxwin.bat
> what are the messages displayed in DOS window when you use startxwin.bat?
> 
>> 
>> I also tried running startx from the bash prompt. I created 
>> .xinitrc and
>> .xserverrc. When I run startx, the bash window changes to 
>> XWin,
> 
> Never heard of a bash window chnaging to xwin??? Can you explain what
> do you mean, a bash window can never change to xwin or x-server window,
> whatever.
> 
> Suhaib
> 
>> and after
>> a little while, an error message comes up saying "waiting for 
>> X server to
>> begin accepting  connections" followed by periods. If I kill 
>> it by Ctrl-C, 
>> an error message comes up saying "xinit, no such file or 
>> directory (errno 2): 
>> unexpected signal 2".
>> 
>> I am still running the ancient win95a, but I am under the 
>> impression that
>> the X server works for all versions of win9x. It is 
>> interesting to observe
>> that the win32-x11 server works (as does xvnc), but it is 
>> excruciatingly
>> slow. Can anyone point out where the problem lies?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Raymond Kwong
>>