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Re: failed to activate core devices errors
Katrin and others,
Op do 10 februari 2011 om 17:12:55 (+0000) schreef jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk (Jon TURNEY):
> On 05/02/2011 23:42, katrin schmid wrote:
> > thanks for the reply.
> > Swrast_dri.so didnt seems to be the problem in my case,
> > will try the XMing now.
> > I followed this:
> > http://robust.cs.utep.edu/arch1-wiki/index.php/Setup_Xming_and_Cygwin#Installing_and_Configuring_the_Xming_X_Server
>
> If you followed those instructions and got stuck, I suggest you contact the
> author.
I suggested the XMing server as a workaround for XWin failing to start.
I think such a workaround is on-topic here.
(Meanwhile I have managed to fix that problem in two different ways,
thanks to the advice on this list - see my earlier message -
but these fixes don't appear to work for Katrin.)
When I was using XMing, I just launched it from its own start menu item,
then started Cygwin bash and launched an xterm from it. Once that worked,
I automated it into a shortcut - its target is:
C:\cygwin\bin\nohup.exe /usr/bin/env PATH=/usr/bin DISPLAY=localhost:0
xterm -e tcsh
which leaves an ugly cmd shell on the screen,
but I didn't bother to fix that.
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