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Re: Problem Starting X-Windows


Dean C. Tsai wrote:

> - NO, the Cygwin/X faq on keymap didnt solve my problem.
> 
> - I have a Dell Laptop w/ XP running. I am guessing the keyboard map is not 
> the problem.
> 
> Permission error or not, I am not sure. However, I have created my-test in 
> /tmp w/o problem...

OK, so you eliminated permissions and keyboard map as the cause.

> Do you have some idea about why and where "sh.exe" is called? I look through 
> Cygwin/X's faq, it says very little about startup configuration. And I am 
> embarrassed to admit that I don't know how to set option via command line?! 
> .... I simple type 'startx' at the prompt. Do you know any good reference 
> for X startup configuration?

The sh you killed is the one running startx, which is a shell script.

The error message "Couldn't open compiled keymap file" comes from xkbcomp.exe,
but I'm confused here, in your first message the keyboard was recognized fine:

> (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
> (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409)
> (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4"

then in your second message the error appears:

> (EE) Couldn't open compiled keymap file /tmp/server-0.xkm
> (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap

so it looks like you changed something or what you mean is that startx hung just
after the keyboard messages and when you killed it the "(EE)" messages appear?

I think this is more of a Xfree86 problem but I don't know how to get more
information out of the startup.

One thing that may be usefull is to see what process is really hung.  It has to
be a child of the shell (startx) and it may be xkbcomp or something else.
-- 
René Berber


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