Also almost there..

[Hans Göebel]

Suhaib,
 
Thanks for your help. I tried your suggestion to 
run startxwin.bat from the DOS prompt. I first ha dto chage the path mentioned 
in it; it now points to /usr/bin/X11, which does not exist. After that, the 
resuly was the same as before.
What puzzles me is that there is not a XF86config 
file in my cygwin directory structure; is it not required for XWin?
Thanks again, any suggestions what to try 
next?
 
>>L.S. > >>I have a problem 
that looks a bit like the one reported recently by John Turner; however, the 
solution outlined for 
>>him does not work for me. >>This 
is what I did: >>- installed Cygwin 1.1.4 on my machine (PIII, TNT2 
video card). This was the first time I used Cygwin, so no chance >>for 
B20.1 or other versions. > > >I hope people stop thinking of 
B20.1.  That word is engraved in some user mind >so deep that Cygwin 
can be on B20.1 but nothing else??? > > >>- downloaded all 
xfree86-4.0-* tar.bz2 files >>- untarred into toplevel cygwin dir, so 
installation is under /usr/X11R6 >>- added /usr/X11R6/bin and 
/usr/X11R6/lib in front of the path in /etc/profile; the path is OK according to 
bash. >>- entered "startxwin.bat" at the bash prompt.(XWin -screen 8 
1024x768x16 has the same effect) > >You DO NOT enter startxwin.bat 
at the BASH prompt.  That is your problem. >The batch files are for 
DOS.  For BASH, use startx script which ships with xfree86. OR 
WRITE >YOUR OWN. > > >>A few DOS boxes with xwin, 
xterm etc. flash over the screen, then the screen becomes black, with just a 
small >>>hour->glass shaped cursor, which can be moved around. For 
the rest, the machine is completely frozen, only >the reset 
>>button gets it alive again. >>Two 
times there was a "lost cluster" on the disk after reboot that contained a 
listing of messages just as John >>reported, apart that the text stops 
after "error opening security policy 
file >>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy". >>I did a 
few experiments to see what could be happening: >>- I did rebuild all 
font .dir files as recommended to John, but this does not help. >>- it 
looks like the Xserver is running, trying to point an xterm from a linux box did 
not give any errors on the 
>>linux side, only nothing was visible at the 
windws side! >>- the xterm on the cygwin/windows machine does work with 
the MIX Xserver,only it reports that sh is not available, >>but I do not 
think this could be the problem. > >>Any suggestions how to get 
this to work, or at least to get some more info (logfiles etc) about what is 
going >wrong? >>Any configuration files that should be 
changed?