XWin dying immediately on XP Pro SP1 - diagnostics techniques?

[Harold L Hunt II]

Alex,

Please send in the contents of /tmp/XWin.log.

Harold

Alex K. Angelopoulos wrote:
> I'm having problems with getting XFree86 (in a freshly downloaded current
> install of Cygwin) running on a system with XP Pro SP1 as the operating
> system.
> 
> From all appearances, XWin dies immediately after starting and then
> everything else called from startxwin.sh dies as well.  Since I'm very new
> to Cygwin and have only used *nix-family GUIs lightly in the last 9 years,
> I have no clue about how to start checking the cause of my problems.
> Could someone give me some tips on starting diagnostics, or at least doing
> verbose logging of the X server startup process?
> 
> Just in case, here's the exact set of error messages I get and details on
> my system and customizations.  Any help appreciated!
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> 
> ===============
> OUTPUT WHEN RUNNING startxwin.sh
> 
> $ startxwin.sh
> xsetroot:  unable to open display 'aka1:0.0'
> 
> Administrator:/home/Administrator ~
> $ twm:  unable to open display "aka1:0.0"
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: aka1:0.0
> 
> ===============
> SYSTEM AND CYGWIN CONFIG DETAILS
> 
> OS Config
> Video - nVidia Riva TNT2 64 AGP card, 32 MiB RAM, running nVidia's own
> 4.3.4.5 driver.
> Networking: + 3Com Etherlink 10/100 PCI NIC (3C905-TX)
>     + external USR 56K Modem
> 
> Cygwin Customization
> + Installed to standard c:\cygwin location
> + Customized startxwin's DISPLAY definition to be `hostname`:0.0.  Same
> results as with 127.0.0.1:0.0.
> 
> 
> 
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