Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.10.2-1

[Stephen More <stephen dot more at gmail dot com>]

Here is the XWin.0.log file.

-Thanks

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
> On 29/06/2011 12:00, Stephen More wrote:
>> After installing service pack 1 to System 7 I got the "Failed to
>> activate core devices." so I updated to xorg-server-1.10.2-1.
>>
>> I no longer am getting the Xwin modal error window, but Xwin is still
>> not starting.
>
> Thanks for the report.
>
> Can you attach the /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log, please
>
>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
>>> The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution:
>>>
>>> *** xorg-server-1.10.2-1
>>> *** xorg-server-dmx-1.10.2-1
>>>
>>> These packages contain XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers.
>>>
>>> In addition to upstream fixes [1], the following cygwin-specific changes
>>> have been made since 1.10.1-1:
>>>
>>> * Use system() rather than pipe() & fork() to invoke xkbcomp. ?This should
>>> work around the X server being unable to startup with "Failed to activate
>>> core devices" error when cygwin's fork() emulation is unable to work
>>> successfully. (Launching applications from the tray menu still uses fork()
>>> and might still fail on problem systems, and other cygwin programs might
>>> still fail to fork(), but hopefully this will prevent these problems from
>>> being reported as an X server issue quite as much). (This should make
>>> Cygwin/X FAQ 9.15 obsolete)
>>> * Automatically activate the -nolock option if /tmp is on a FAT filesystem.
>>> (This should make Cygwin/X FAQ 2.3 obsolete)
>>> * Automatically activate the -emulate3buttons option if less than 3 mouse
>>> buttons are reported. ?Add -noemulate3buttons option so this ?can be
>>> reversed.
>>> * To facilitate testing of llvmpipe/softpipe, if the GALLIUM_DRIVER env var
>>> is set, load the swrastg rather than swrast rasterizer.
>>> * In -wgl mode, create a new dispatch table, rather than modifying the
>>> existing one to avoid a GLX crash.
>>>
>>> 9ea8c1f306aff9cd32542ee9f47af400 *xorg-server-1.10.2-1.tar.bz2
>>> 974750046285c50f8c91244120af5d41 *xorg-server-dmx-1.10.2-1.tar.bz2
>>> b525dda038b3b91b347699aa3de0966a *xorg-server-1.10.2-1-src.tar.bz2
>>>
>>> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2011-May/001675.html
>>>
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