XFree86/Cygwin under win4lin (fwd)

Alexander Gottwald Alexander.Gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Thu May 10 08:32:00 GMT 2001


Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:58:05 +0200 (CEST)
From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: Christopher Stone <tkmame@retrogames.com>
Cc: Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Subject: Re: XFree86/Cygwin under win4lin

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Christopher Stone wrote:

> On Wednesday 09 May 2001 04:20 am, you wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 May 2001, Christopher Stone wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > When I try to run XFree86 under win4lin it complains with some socket
> > > error and asks me if I am already running an X server (which I am because
> > > I am running win4lin)...is there anyway to run XFree86 for Cygwin under a
> > > win4lin environment?
> >
> > Use the extra parameter ":1" or ":2" this will set up the server with
> > display number ":1.0" instead of ":0.0" wich is already occupied by the
> > linux xserver
> 
> 
> Hi, thanks for responding!  I tried Xwin.exe ":2" and got the following error:
> 
> DuplicateHandle failed Win32 error 6DuplicateHandle failed Win32 error 
> 6_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows 95/98/Me
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw not installed
> winSetEngine () - Using Shadow GDI DIB
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 640 height 480
> winFinishScreenInitFB () - Could not allocate frame buffer
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Couldn't add screen 0
> 
> Any ideas on what could be wrong?  Thanks again for your time.

You still have to specify the screen:
XWin :2 -screen 0 800x600x16

bye
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