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From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problem connecting to Solaris 8 systems using Xwin
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40040BF6.1060207@msu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401131144000.12132@odoaker.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>

Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Martin McNelis wrote:
> 
> 
>>Surely if that was the case I would be unable to connect to Solaris 2.6
>>boxes, which I can.  The keyboard mapping problem is one I've always had
>>with Cygwin as the keyboard I use is for UK and Ireland.  That has never
>>stopped me connecting to a box.  The only thing that has ever caused the
>>same problem for me before was if a Solaris box was called without
>>specifying a font server.  I've checked that the font server is running on
>>the Solaris 8 boxes but still now luck.  Is it possible that the Font server
>>for Solaris 8 has changed slightly and is no longer compatible with Cygwin?
> 
> 
> I don't think so. I've used cygwin/X to connect to Solaris 8 too and had
> no problems. If it is even crashing then there must be a bigger problem.
> 
> Have you started XWin with special parameters (eg -multiwindow, -clipboard)?
> 
> @Harold: Do you have a debug build ready. I'd like Martin to try it in 
> gdb to get a backtrace where the server crashed. 

No, I do not have a debug build ready.  I could perhaps make one, but it 
will take a bit.

Harold


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-13 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5ABC4497FD46ED44908A8A58B1853B9A155614@babylon.tecnomen.ie>
2004-01-13 10:48 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-01-13 15:17   ` Harold L Hunt II [this message]
2004-01-13 15:25     ` Igor Pechtchanski
2004-01-13 16:57 Martin McNelis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-13 16:46 Martin McNelis
2004-01-13 16:50 ` Harold L Hunt II
2004-01-13 15:40 Martin McNelis
2004-01-13 16:17 ` Harold L Hunt II
     [not found] <5ABC4497FD46ED44908A8A58B1853B9A155613@babylon.tecnomen.ie>
2004-01-12 17:44 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-01-12 17:13 Martin McNelis
2004-01-12 17:24 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-01-13 15:32 ` Harold L Hunt II

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