Cannot Start XFree version 4.4.0

[Jim Drash]

How about reading the documentation:

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/configure.html


On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 07:08:27 +0000 (UTC), Terrence White
<tewhite@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> I have cygwin installed, and now I am installing XFree 4.4.0.
> 
> The istallation Xinstall.sh script ran with no errors.
> 
> After the installation completes, the instructions direct me to configure
> XFree by running:
> 
> XFree86 -configure
> 
> But I cannot find an executable by this name.
> I do not have the xf86config nor the anxf86cfg files on my file system either.
> 
> I tried to run startx under /usr/X11R6/bin, but I get the following popup
> error from xinit.exe:
> 
> Unable to locate Component
> 
> "The application has failed to start because cygcygipc-2.dll was not found. Re-
> installing the application may fix the problem."
> 
> I tried re-installing several times, and I still do not have cygcygipc-2.dll.
> The Xinstall.sh script runs without error each time.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
>