Cygwin-Xfree-Opendx Question

[Annette and Frankie Stone]

Further along but still needing help.

1.  I do not understand how to "pass a proper screen configuration for
screen number 0 to
   XWin.exe".  Where do you enter the "XWin.exe -screen 0 800x600x16" - on
the cygwin bash shell?

2.  I have updated cygwin with the latest release and I have downloaded the
latest opendx for cygwin and installed it.

I can now open dx (the dxscreen is larger than the Xfree86 screen) but it
will not open a sample file.  The visual program
editor comes up but not the file.  There are a number of messages.

The first thing I will mention is that in running Xfree86 the
"cygwin/tmp/.X11-unix" folder seems to keep getting lost.  Most of the time
it shows
up on the cmd.exe as not being found.

In dx the first file it couldn't find was LIBR_HDF.dll.  I searched and
found where it was and included it in the path.

It now is looking for libpng.dll.  There is a libpng.dll.a in C:/cygwin/lib
but there was not a libpng.dll on the C drive.   I've included the way to
libpng.dll.a in the
path and it does no good.

I re-installed Xfree86 to see if it would help and I have pasted some of the
shell writings below so that you might see if any of this has a bearing on
what is happening.

Thanks,

Frankie Stone

Checking which OS you're running...
uname reports 'CYGWIN_NT-5.0' version '1.3.2(0.39/3/2)', architecture
'i686'.

chmod: changing permissions of `extract': No such file or directory
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/tmp/gnu-tar: .XFree86_Version: Not found in archive
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/tmp/gnu-tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Warning: can't detect the bindist version
Checking for required files ...


./
SecurityPolicy
Do you want to overwrite the XftConfig config file? (y/n) [n] y
Installing the XftConfig config file ...
+ cp -p .etctmp/XftConfig /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig
cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig': Permission
denied



== Extracting /cygdrive/c/cygwin/tmp/Xbin.tgz ==
== Extracting /cygdrive/c/cygwin/tmp/Xlib.tgz ==
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/tmp/extract: lib/X11/xkb: Could not create symlink to
`../../
../.././etc/X11/xkb': File exists
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/tmp/extract: Error exit delayed from previous errors

You appear to have a termcap file: /etc/termcap
This should be edited manually to replace the xterm entries
with those in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xterm.termcap

Note: the new xterm entries are required to take full advantage
of new features, but they may cause problems when used with
older versions of xterm.  A terminal type 'xterm-r6' is included
for compatibility with the standard X11R6 version of xterm.

You appear to have a terminfo directory: /usr/lib/terminfo
New xterm terminfo entries can be installed now.

Note: the new xterm entries are required to take full advantage
of new features, but they may cause problems when used with
older versions of xterm.  A terminal type 'xterm-r6' is included
for compatibility with the standard X11R6 version of xterm.