RE: XWin Won't Run Without -screen Option

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

of course no Xserver will run if you do not specifiy the screen
you must use -screen 0r :0 option.  Plese read more about X first 

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hon-Chi Ng [mailto:honchi_ng@my-deja.com] 
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 1:43 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: XWin Won't Run Without -screen Option
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I installed Cygwin 1.3.2 and Cygwin/XFree86 4.1.0 from 
> ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/sourceware/cygwin/xfree/xc-4-binaries/4.1.0/
> 
> I also installed startup-scripts.tgz Release 2 released on 
> Aug 4, 2001.
> 
> When I tried to run either startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh, it 
> complained with "no screen found" error, as shown below.
> 
>   $ /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh
>   Agent pid 1124
>   
>   Fatal server error:
>   no screens found
>   XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X 
> server "127.0.0.1:0.0"
>        after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>   XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X 
> server "127.0.0.1:0.0"
>        after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>   xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0
>   xsetroot:  unable to open display '127.0.0.1:0.0'
>   twm:  unable to open display "127.0.0.1:0.0"
> 
> 
> If I tried running XWin without parameter on both cmd.exe and 
> bash, it complained with the same "no screen found" error
> 
>   $ XWin
>   _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
>   
>   Fatal server error:
>   no screens found
> 
> 
> However, if I supply "-screen 0 1024 768" parameter/argument 
> to XWin command on either command-line of cmd.exe or bash, or 
> in startxwin.* scripts, the X server runs and comes out fine.  E.g.
> 
>   XWin -screen 0 1024 768
> 
> 
> In "Chapter 3. Configuring Cygwin/XFree86" of Cygwin/XFree86 
> User's Guide at http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/ , it 
> mentions that XWin.exe can be used without any 
> parameter/argument, which by default, runs in windowed mode 
> with the largest window that will fit on your Windows 
> desktop, using ...
> 
> 
> What have I missed?   Why my XWin won't run without -screen option?
> 
> BTW, I read the FAQ at 
> http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#AEN26
1 and searched the mailing list archives with "no screens" with
http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=htdig&restrict=%2Fml%2Fcygwin-xfre
e%2F&exclude=&method=and&format=builtin-long&sort=time&words=no+screens
, but found nothing mentioned about the "no screens found" error.


FYI, 

  $ /tmp/Xinstall.sh -check
  Checking which OS you're running...
  uname reports 'CYGWIN_NT-5.0' version '1.3.2(0.39/3/2)', architecture
'i686'.
  
  Binary distribution name is 'Cygwin-ix86'


Thanks.

Regards
Hon-Chi


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