Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

[aroushdi]

aroushdi wrote:
> Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 12 May 2004, aroushdi wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I am a little bit confused I see here that we have moved to Xorg 
>>> distribution . I took a look at XFree.org and it seems they have 
>>> Binaries for Cygwin till 4.4 .
>>
>>
>>
>> These binaries are likely to be very outdated. We moved to X.org 
>> because it was easier for Cygwin/X developers to get cvs access there. 
>> XFree only allowed cvs access for a few people from the core team. We had
>> to ask them to include the changes into their cvs. As a result the 
>> XFree cvs was always a few weeks up to some months behind the Cygwin/X 
>> development.
>> The cygwin part from XFree may now be about 7 or 8 months old. Many
>> improvements (eg for multiwindow mode or clipboard support) have not 
>> been included into the XFree cvs.
>>
>>> My question is Xfree going to be abandoned in favor of Xorg . What is 
>>> the relation between the 2 . The reason I am asking because since the 
>>> move to Xorg binaries i cannot have more than one Xsession at a time .
>>
>>
>>
>> You can start the first Xserver as usual
>> XWin [options]
>> and the second with
>> XWin :1 [options]
>> the third with
>> XWin :2 [options] and so on
>>
>> This results in display names :0.0, :1.0, :2.0 ...
>>
>> bye
>>     ago
> 
> Alexander , thank u for ur quick reply I have used ur technique with and 
> without -from , -fp  , once and they all fail with unable to bind and no 
> message in the logfile . I have produced the same errors on winXP and 
> W2K . same thing . Old version 4.3 and 4.4 works fine no problem . is 
> there a way to get a more diagnosting log . I suspect that there is a 
> module locking some file which casses this error . The same error can be 
> reproduced on V 4.3 & 4.4 if use the same port :X we get the same 
> message faile to bind .
> 
> thks for ur help
> 
> 
Alex can u reproduce this problem
thks