RE: continued installation problems

["Ted Lewis" <lewist at geo dot umass dot edu>]

Thanks very much for the response.

I first tried to reinstall zlib from setup.exe.  No luck - got the same
white screen in startxwin.bat

Next I reinstalled Cygwin from my setup directory (c:\cyginstall\latest),
making sure zlib was there. -no missing .dll messages this time.

I then reinstalled Cygnus/Xwin & ran startxwin.bat, and got the same white
screen as before.  Four dos windows popped up - "xterm", "xwin",
"finished-startxwin", "twm" (same as before).

Xwin has the following in it
ddxProcessArgument ()
ddxProcessArgument () - screen - argc: 5 i: 1
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows 95/98/Me
winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 00000017
winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Using Windows display depth of 16 bits per
pix
el
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient w 1024 h 768 r 1024 l 0 b
768
t 0
winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - lPitch: 2048
winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f BPRGB 6 d 16
winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()

Startxwin has startxwin.bat - "starting on Windows 95/98/Me" in it.

Should I change some sort of screen attribute?  I don't really understand
the instruction at
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-configure-options.html.

Thanks again.
Ted



-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 9:53 AM
To: Ted Lewis
Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [postmaster@sourceware] continued installation problems

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 12:41:17PM -0700, Ted Lewis wrote:
>I 1st installed Cygwin 1.3.3 on a Win98SE machine as per instructions on
the
>Cygwin and Cygwin/Xfree user manuals and FAQs & it seemed to work fine.
>In the "Cygwin Setup" program, I left all defaults as is.
>During 1st installation of Cygwin/Xfree, I got an error message saying
>"cygz.dll" is missing.  This was while extracting postscript fonts. I have
>used "find", and there is no cygz.dll on my HD.  Installation continued,
and
>I extracted startup-scripts successfully.  However, when I opened
>startxwin.bat, I once again got the cygz.dll error.  The shells the .bat
>file attempted to open, but were not successful.
>
>I removed & reinstalled Cygwin.  After installation I manually added all
>files in zlib-1.1.3-6 to c:\cygwin\bat with WinZip (bad idea?).  I did this
>because a Google search turned this up:
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-07/msg01685.html.

This message does not tell you to use WinZip.  It says that something went
wrong during your installation.

When you install using setup.exe, you should see a "zlib" package near the
bottom of all of the packages that you are installing.  If you rerun
setup.exe
you may see this.  If you don't, click on the "Full/Part" button at the top
of the screen.  This will show all of the available packages.  Click on the
"Keep" or whatever shows up next to zlib until you get to "Reinstall".  This
will reinstall zlib on your computer.

Wrt to using WinZip to unpack, check out the caveats against doing that
here:

http://cygwin.com/download.html

cgf