RE: xwin on cygwin - cannot connect

["Andrew Leung" <andrew.leung@utoronto.ca>]

Thanks for the reply,  here it is,  This was my latest attempt, but now
it seems the checkered screen stays.. but with no change.  It does not
disappear on me at this point.  

ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
(EE) Unable to locate/open config file
InitOutput - Error reading config file
winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Allowing PrimaryDD
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0000001f
InitOutput - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits
per pixel
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1024 h: 768
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1024 h: 768
winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 100 718 1024
winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 100 718 1024
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 918 h 693 r 918 l 0 b
693 t 0
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed -  Returning
winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Creating primary surface
winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Created primary surface
winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Attached clipper to primary surface
winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 3672
winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow pitch: 3672
winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow stride: 918
winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24
bpp 32
winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
winFinishScreenInitFB - returning
winScreenInit - returning
InitOutput - Returning.
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
(==) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) 
(EE) No primary keyboard configured
(==) Using compiletime defaults for keyboard
Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)"
Options = "(null)"
winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 459 346
winBlockHandler - Releasing pmServerStarted
winBlockHandler - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned


-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
[mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 1:09 AM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: xwin on cygwin - cannot connect

Andrew,

Andrew Leung wrote:
> I've got cygwin on winxp machine - can't connect to the X server.
When
> using xwin.exe :0 -query <host> the checkered screen quickly comes up
> and then disappears.. Anyone know whats happening?  Also I remember
> someone mentioning that X shouldn't be running on the linux box when
> trying to connect.  How do I stop this as the login screen loads up
> everytime I boot up?  The machine is running slackware.  I'm pretty
sure
> there's communication since tcpdumps show some responsive port 117
> traffic..  Any help is appreciated, I'm new to linux so I'm not sure
> what to look for..  Thanks in advance.

Sounds like you have a font problem on your Windows machine.  Please 
send in the contents of /tmp/XWin.log after a failed attempt to connect.

Harold