Problems startting XWIN

Suhaib Siddiqi ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Wed May 30 13:18:00 GMT 2001


Try reducing the resolution at xwin command line

e.g

startx xwin -screeon 800x600x16 ......................


Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernd Goerz [ mailto:b.goerz@fair-computer.de ] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 11:43 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Problems startting XWIN
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> evertime I try to start xwin I´ve got the following messages:
> 
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000000f
> winSetEngine () - Using user's preference: 4
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Command line depth: 32, 
> using depth: 16
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 1024 
> height 768
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 
> 0000001f RGB 6 d 16
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Returning
> error opening security policy file 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> 
> so the xwin didn´t start.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bernd Goerz
> 



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