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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> To: paul@paulhardy.net, cygwin-xfree <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com> Subject: Re: Cygwin Xwin error Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:12:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <525D693A.7030708@dronecode.org.uk> (raw) In-Reply-To: <000601cec919$95a866d0$c0f93470$@btinternet.com> Again, this discussion belongs on the cygwin-xfree list. On 14/10/2013 21:11, Paul Hardy wrote: > Sorry, my googling on that error message led me to the page that I quoted > which has no links to email lists, but did have your emails. The Cygwin website has instructions about how to report bugs in Cygwin. > I use Cygwin on an XP laptop set up in 2007, to provide Xwindows/Motif login > to a historic VMS simulation in SimH using Xdmcp, and this works fine. I'm > trying to get it going on a new PC running Windows 7, which has necessitated > a later Cygwin. > > The SimH side is fine, but I can't get a current Cygwin to behave. I get an > error when I try to start Xwin saying "winValidateArgs - -fullscreen is > invalid with -scrollbars, -resize, -nodecoration, or -lesspointer." However, > my command line is "/usr/bin/XWin -ac -fullscreen -depth 8 -query > 192.168.1.200 " which doesn't contain any of "-scrollbars, -resize, > -nodecoration, or -lesspointer.". Thanks for reporting this problem. This is a bug. XWin currently always sets the default resize mode to -resize=randr. As it doesn't make sense to try to resize the screen in -fullscreen mode, we should set the default resize mode to -noresize. > Putting -noresize gets me further, in that I get no immediate error message, > but a totally black screen. I had to hit the Windows key to escape. > > The Xwin log file is attached. Are you able to interpret? > [296068.603] winBlockHandler - pthread_mutex_unlock() > [296083.595] winRedrawScreenShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 > [296083.595] winRedrawScreenShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 This is DDERR_SURFACELOST, and I think just means that you pressed the Windows key so that the X server lost fullscreen. > [296092.658] winRedrawScreenShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 > [296092.658] winRedrawScreenShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 > [296100.349] winDestroyColormapShadowDDNL - Failed freeing the default colormap DirectDraw palette. > [296100.349] winDestroyColormap - Engine specific colormap destruction procedure failed. Continuing, but it is possible that memory was leaked, or that colors will be messed up from now on. > [296100.380] winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress > [296100.380] Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. Can you try this again, but wait about 2 1/2 minutes to see if any XDM errors appear. > I note that I can still connect from my old laptop to the target VMS virtual > system running in a SimH VM on the new PC, so the target system and > networking are OK. I assume that this is running an older version of the X server. Can you say which? -depth 8 is not often used, so it's quite possible something has gotten broken. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
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