X server won't start in win95a

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

> Nope.  I have no networking. 
> > What do you mean by "no networking"  without TCP/IP you cannot use 
> > X.
> Just a single machine with dialup.
> 
>  As Raymond says this appears to be an
> incompatibility with win9x versus winNT.  As you know, this is a
> different code base.
> > explain???? Which code base????


There is no such thing of incompability between Windows9x and NT.  An
application can be designed to run only on Win9x or NT.


> 
> Microsoft internally has two different Windows sources, one 
> is Win9x and
> the other is WinNT.  
> 


Oh really. I think Bill Gates keep calling you about this different sources
for Windows.  Thanks for letting us know.  I made a note in my diary and I
will do my best to tell the rest of the world.

> But this isn't the problem as Raymond has Cygwin/XFree 
> working on both. 

Raymond problem is not same as yours.  Your problem is we even do not know
what is your problem....

> However, X doesn't work on my Win98 2nd installation.  I 
> would be happy
> to supply you with a message dump if that would be helpful.  It would
> require some sort of setup because X just comes up for a one 
> second and
> you don't really see anything.


What kind of special setup?  Setup like a CIA of FBI setup to trap the
terrorists?

Suhaib


> 
> -Robert Cristel
> Montreal, Canada
>