RE: Cygwin-Xfree-Opendx Question

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Do a mount command from bash shell and post output to the list.  I am sure
you did not follow instructions properly to install Cygwin/Xfree86.  You may
have to rerun the setup.exe for Cygwin and make sure you choose UNIX mode.

Suhaib

PS: Please keep replies to the mailing list.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Annette and Frankie Stone [mailto:fstone@majik-net.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:26 PM
> To: Suhaib Siddiqi
> Subject: Re: Cygwin-Xfree-Opendx Question
> 
> Suhaib,
> 
> Thank you for your reply.
> 
> I'm not exactly sure how to answer your question about the TEXT
> mounted
> Cygwin disk but maybe this will answer your question.
> 
> I am working on a 1gig Athlon with 384 meg ram and Windows 2000.
> 
> I downloaded all of the files over the internet and installed them on
> the C
> drive.  The Cygwin I'm using is:
> 
> These are lines from the install log
> Installing latest/Cygwin/Cygwin-1.1.8-2.tar.gz -
> mbox note: Installation Complete
> 2001/04/15 01:37:00 Ending Cygwin install            Cygwin seems to
> work
> fine.
> 
> I downloaded and installed XFree86 4.1.0 on 7/18/01 following Harold L
> Hunt's II directions in the Cygwin/XFree86 User's Guide as best I
> could.
> 
> As a side note when I start XFree86 I get a message screen that says -
> "Cannot find the file 'mxterm' (or one of its components)"
> There are also two additional terminal looking screens that come up.
> One is
> a cmd.exe screen that has nothing on it and the other is an XWin.exe
> screen
> that has the following:
> 
> "winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000000f
> winSetEngine () - Using user's preference: 4
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Command line depth: 32, using depth:
> 16
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 794 height 546
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f RGB 6 d
> 16
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Returning
> error opening security policy file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,
> removing
> from list!"
> 
> I do get a Cygwin/XFree86 window.  Should I be concerned about any of
> these
> extra screens or messages?
> 
> I then downloaded "opendx-4.1.1-Cygwin-1.1.2.tar.gz" and followed your
> instructions on the "OpenDXREADME_Cygwin.htm".  Things seemed to go
> well.
> When I first typed dx it gave this error
> 
> "bash-2.04$ dx
> exec: /usr/local/dx/bin/dxworker: not found".
> 
> I then looked at the dxworker script file and changed #!/bin/csh -f to
> #!/bin/sh -f and it saw it but gave the error message I typed in the
> initial
> message.  I do realize that just removing the c is not enough to
> change a c
> shell script file to a bash script file.
> 
> Am I possibly having a Cygwin to opendx version problem?
> 
> Another question.
> Why would dxworker be in a c shell format if it is in the Cygwin
> opendx
> download?
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Frankie Stone
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
> To: "'Annette and Frankie Stone'" <fstone@majik-net.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 5:40 AM
> Subject: RE: Cygwin-Xfree-Opendx Question
> 
> 
> > Did you install it on a TEXT mounted Cygwin disk?
> >
> > Suhaib
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Annette and Frankie Stone [mailto:fstone@majik-net.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 10:37 PM
> > > To: cygwin-xfree@xfree.cygwin.com
> > > Subject: Cygwin-Xfree-Opendx Question
> > >
> > > Any ideas why I'm getting the error message below?  I'm assuming
> > > it is =
> > > pointing to line 23 of dxworker but I don't know what the message
> > > is =
> > > referring to or how to correct it in dxworker.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Frankie Stone
> > >
> > > bash-2.04$ dx
> > > /usr/local/dx/bin/dxworker: 23: Syntax error: word unexpected
> > > (expecting
> > > =")")
> >