RE: Xfree on Win98?

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

This thread is dead.

There are nettiquests about using decent language.
I have now submitted all his previous and present correspondence to IBM
System Administrators.
I will let them deal with him and have them teach him to use decent
language.

We do not need users who use abussive langauge.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francis VIVAT [mailto:francis.vivat@cetp.ipsl.fr]
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 2:15 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: Xfree on Win98?
>
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> ----- Message d'origine -----
> De : <lebarre@us.ibm.com>
> À : <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> Envoyé : vendredi 27 octobre 2000 20:10
> Objet : RE: Xfree on Win98?
>
>
> > That's IT!
> >
> > I'm tired of all this fucking bickering and backstabbing.
> I'm outta here.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > To:   cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > cc:
> > Subject:  RE: Xfree on Win98?
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> > At present Windows 98/95 are not supported.  You should
> cosnider reading
> > FAQ
> > and mail archives please!
> >
> > You may consider using X-server-1.0 archive from "contrib"
> directory.  It
> > is
> > not based
> > upon XFree86, and uses no Cygwin, but should work on
> Windows 95/98 in
> > Single-Windowed mode.
> >
> > It should be installed in \usr not c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6
> directory... just to
> > warn you before
> > you start posting without reading FAQ and doing a search on
> mail archives.
> >
> > Suhaib
> >
> > >
> > > I am running Win98SE, my display adapter is a Matrox
> > > Millenium G400 and my
> > > display is a 17"-95kHz monitor! Cygwin is installed
> > > completely but root is
> > > mounted in textmode!
> > >
> > > I have installed all archives from the ftp server and I
> am running the
> > > current release of Cygwin. But when invoking startxwin.bat, i.e.:
> > > ======================================
> > > @echo off
> > > SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> > > SET
> > > PATH=.;C:\Cygwin\bin;.;C:\Cygwin\usr\local\bin;C:\Cygwin\usr\X
> > > 11R6\bin;%PATH
> > > %
> > > start XWin -screen 8 1024x768x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
> > > start xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black
> > > start rxvt -fn "Lucidia Console-12"
> > > start vtwm
> > > ======================================
> > >
> > > by double clicking in Explorer some dos windows do appear and
> > > after a short
> > > while the X11 screen comes up with the X-cross centered on
> > > the screen. At
> > > this time no keyboard nor any mouse movement can be made. The
> > > system does
> > > hang completely, so the only thing to do is power off!
> > >
> > > The same thing (but without those dos-windows ;) happens
> when I invoke
> > > startxwin out of may bash window!
> > >
> > > Has anyone Xfree X-server running on WIn98? And did this one
> > > has to fix
> > > similar problems? Or has anybody any setting which can help
> > > the X-server to
> > > run?
> > >
> > > Claus
> > >
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