more startup "stalling"

[Enoch Wu <ewu at eskimo dot com>]

Hi,

Geoff Soutter writes:
 > Hi there,
 > 
 > I downloaded and installed the latest cygwin (131) and cywin-xfree (mostly
 > dated 21/4) onto my Win NT 4 sp 6 box on Friday.
 > 
 > I'm getting the same symptoms as sungkim - the X Server starts with an empty
 > screen in a window and none of the clients start.

How did you start it? There are two startxwin.bats and which one gets
installed depends on installation sequence of XWin and XClients.
Therefore, to everyone who asks the question, I suggest that they post the
startxwin.bat being executed.
 
 > Here's what I get as the output of XWin.exe
 > 
 > _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
 > winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
 > winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
 > winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
 > winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines
0000000b

Engine b  --- something strange here

 > winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw
 > winAdjustVideoModeShadowDD () - Command line depth: 32, using depth: 24
 > winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 1024 height 768
 > winInitVisualsShadowDD () - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff bpRGB: 8
 > winInitVisualsShadowDD () - Returning
 > error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
 > 
 > I think I've figured out from seaching the list that the first and last
 > error messages can be ignored. I think it'd be a great idea to include which
 > "warning" messages are "expected" into the install docs so that we can avoid
 > new users having to browse the mail archives ...

Good idea.


 > 
 > I've got it installed on the D drive instead of C but I presume this makes
 > no difference...
 > 
 > Also, I noticed as did others I see that the install docs are out of date
 > regarding the full screen issue, the contents of startxwin.bat and the font
 > archive files. I found many font archive files rather than the single one
 > refered to.
 > 
 > Does anyone know what gives? I'm stuck...
 
 > Cheers
 > 
 > Geoff
 > 

Later...

EW