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Re: Cygwin 1.5.9: X won't start


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	Igor

On Tue, 25 May 2004, Gerry Reno wrote:

> I'm running Cygwin 1.5.9 and am trying to start X, but not having much luck.
> Here's what the console shows:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> XWin was started with the following command line:
>
> Xwin
>
> winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
> (II) XF86Config is not supported
> (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007
> winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel
> winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
> MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
> XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel
> (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
> (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409)
> (EE) Keyboardlayout "US" (00000409) is unknown
> Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)"
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list!
> winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 837 492
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> All I see is the grey herringbone background with the X cursor.  Can
> someone give me some pointers on how to get X running?

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