RE: question about alpha release of xfree-cygwin

["Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <siddiqis at ipass dot net>]

The Xwin is  DirectX server drived from xvfb code.
It runs in a fullscreen (very messy) mode.
In the same archive you will find XGGI.exe use that.  It uses
John Fortin's GGI drivers.  You will need to install John fortin's
GGI for DirectX.  The info it at Cygwin-xfree URL and in mail archive.
I need to rush for a meeting today and i am runing late.

Feel free to drop your questions to cygwin-xfree list if
cannot install it.

You may also consider xfddx_x_server_binary.tar.bz2.  But it has
the problems of its own right now and Dr. Peter Busch is
devoting a lot of time fix the last known bugs as soon as possible.

Do a search on Beta New X-server mails and anoucements, in the mail archive
 during last week.

I will be updating URL of Cygwin/XFree soon to reflect Dr. Peter Busch xfddx
contributions.

Suhaib


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Haomin Wu [mailto:HaominW@luxn.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 6:05 PM
> To: 'ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com'; 'fortinj@ibm.net'
> Subject: question about alpha release of xfree-cygwin
>
>
> Hello, Suhaib,
>
> I have downloaded pre-alpha-xfree-cygwin-b20.1.tar and extracted
> it into my
> NT PC C:,
> the package is at C:\usr\X11R6\bin
> 			         \lib
>                                              \include
>
> I am trying to run XWin.exe under \bin to open up X window, but
> failed, and
> got the following message
>
> ------------------------------------
> C:\usr\X11R6\bin>xwin
> scheduling timer: Invalid argument
> _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: mkdir(/tmp/.X11-unix)
> failed, errno = 2
> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for local
>
> Fatal server error:
> Failed to establish all listening sockets
>
> C:\usr\X11R6\bin>
> ----------------------------------
>
> what is the command to do it or is there anything else I need to set up to
> open up a X-server?
>
> The reason for my interest is only to try to run my favourate text editor
> Nedit on the x-server because Nedit only runs
> on X-server. Is there any suggestion that you may have for me to make it
> happen? thanks a lot.
>
> Haomin Wu
>
>