From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30285 invoked by alias); 29 Jun 2011 11:01:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 30273 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jun 2011 11:01:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-iw0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-iw0-f171.google.com) (209.85.214.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:00:52 +0000 Received: by iwn34 with SMTP id 34so1242030iwn.2 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:00:51 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.143.129 with SMTP id v1mr602368ibu.14.1309345251230; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:00:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.157.139 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:00:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:01:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.10.2-1 From: Stephen More To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-06/txt/msg00021.txt.bz2 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. -Stephen More On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Jon TURNEY w= rote: > 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. =A0This sho= uld > 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 filesyste= m. > (This should make Cygwin/X FAQ 2.3 obsolete) > * Automatically activate the -emulate3buttons option if less than 3 mouse > buttons are reported. =A0Add -noemulate3buttons option so this =A0can be > reversed. > * To facilitate testing of llvmpipe/softpipe, if the GALLIUM_DRIVER env v= ar > 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.h= tml > > -- > Jon TURNEY > Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer > > -- > Unsubscribe info: =A0 =A0 =A0http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: =A0 =A0 =A0 http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ > FAQ: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ > > -- 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/