XWin on Windows 98 unreliable
Ken Dibble
kdibbleNOSPAM@alltel.net
Mon Jul 26 16:14:00 GMT 2004
These are some of the things I have heard people complain about:
the entry
127.0.0.1 localhost
is not in /etc/hosts file
Are you configured to use a proxy server? (AOL ?)
Do you have multiple network interfaces enabled?
Do you have a network drive mapped to your computer?
Are you using Trumpet Winsock?
If you are using any personal firewall, disabling it is not sufficient,
it must be removed,
as it modifies the IP stack.
Hope one of these works.
Ken
Christopher G D Tipper wrote:
>Dear List,
>
>I am somewhat exhausted by this issue, but I feel it ought to come to the
>attention of the development team.
>
>Basically I wanted to run TCM on my Windows 98 console and found myself
>spending many happy hours downloading over 100MB of cygwin.
>
>I don't think there is anything special about my environment. I like to keep a
>tight ship, and I don't need ZoneAlarm or any special firewall on a dial-up
>connection. Norton is disabled and I just scan files religiously when the need
>arises.
>
>But I find the X-Server refuses to load unless I have a working dial-up link. It
>just gets stuck after the following trace (below). On three occasions it has
>worked, and I've been able to (briefly) use TCM. Even so I only get a <50%
>success rate.
>
>Below I use the system information applet to provide a list of 32-bit internet
>related modules I am currently using (as I type this). Non of these seem to
>be unloaded when dial-up is disconnected. I have very few third-party DLLs
>in memory--Microsoft modules about 90%, some Diamond graphics drivers,
>and drivers for my peripherals, plus any programs I happen to be using.
>There is nothing special about my environment.
>
>WSOCK32.DLL 4.10.1998 Microsoft Corporation BSD Socket API for
>Windows C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WSOCK32.DLL 29-04-1998
>16:05:12 GMT Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Operating System 78810000 -
>7881a000
>MSWSOCK.DLL 4.10.1998 Microsoft Corporation Microsoft
>WinSock Extension APIs
>C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSWSOCK.DLL 29-04-1998 16:04:37
>GMT Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Operating System 7b120000 -
>7b135000
>WS2_32.DLL 4.10.1998 Microsoft Corporation Windows Socket 2.0
>32-Bit DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WS2_32.DLL 29-04-1998
>16:05:12 GMT Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Operating System 78860000 -
>78872000
>WININET.DLL 6.00.2600.0000 Microsoft Corporation Internet Extensions
>for Win32 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WININET.DLL 18-08-2001
>05:34:00 GMT Microsoft® Windows® Operating System 70200000 -
>70294000
>MSAFD.DLL 4.10.1998 Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Windows
>Sockets 2.0 Service Provider C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSAFD.DLL 29-
>04-1998 16:04:28 GMT Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Operating System
>7c110000 - 7c11b000
>WS2HELP.DLL 4.10.1998 Microsoft Corporation Windows Socket 2.0
>Helper for Windows 98 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WS2HELP.DLL 29-
>04-1998 16:05:12 GMT Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Operating System
>78850000 - 78856000
>
>I have used this machine as a development platform with Apache, MySQL
>and Tomcat running with no problems accessing 'localhost' (yes on Windows
>98!). So I can only assume Cygwin/X is very picky and is not really release
>code.
>
>I now have TCM on my Linux partition, so thanks for pointing it out.
>
>Christopher Tipper
>
>$ startxwin.sh
>Welcome to the XWin X Server
>Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
>Release: 6.7.0.0-11
>$
>Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>
>XWin was started with the following command line:
>
>XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error -emulate3buttons
>200
>
>(WW) /tmp mounted int textmode
>winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
>(II) XF86Config is not supported
>(II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
>winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows 95/98/Me
>winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
>winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
>winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007
>winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI
>winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 24 bits
>per pixel
>winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1024 height: 715 depth:
>24
>winQueryRGBBitsAndMasks - GetDeviceCaps (BITSPIXEL) returned 24 for
>the screen.
> Using default 24bpp masks.
>winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
>winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d
>24 bpp 24
>null screen fn ReparentWindow
>null screen fn RestackWindow
>InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init
>InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned
>InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init
>InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned
>winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello
>...forever
>
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