I get the same exact result when running startxwin with the -nowgl option.

The output of the cygcheck.out as requested is attached.

Thanks!

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27/02/2016 14:57, Robert Haskins wrote:
>>
>> (My apologies if this message doesn't make it to the original thread
>> -- I hadn't subscribed to the list before now...)
>>
>> So when I try startxwin, it prints a bunch of stuff and nothing
>> happens. The log is below. And yes, the swrast_dri.so is there; the
>> output of the cygcheck is below the X log output..
>
>
> usually the log files are attached not pit in line
>
> as usual for https://cygwin.com/problems.html
> "Run cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out and include that file as an attachment
> in your report. Please do not compress or otherwise encode the output. Just
> attach it as a straight text file so that it can be easily viewed."
>
>
>> { ~ }  » startxwin
>> xauth: (stdin):2:  unknown command "01c8a525b1e7d7cde2587e307895bfa2"
>> xauth: (stdin):3:  unknown command "01c8a525b1e7d7cde2587e307895bfa2"
>> xauth: (stdin):4:  unknown command "01c8a525b1e7d7cde2587e307895bfa2"
>> xauth: (stdin):5:  unknown command "01c8a525b1e7d7cde2587e307895bfa2"
>
>
>
> this is strange. But it happens also on my X and it works
> so I presume is not the root cause.
>
>
>> Welcome to the XWin X Server
>> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
>> Release: 1.18.1.0
>> OS: CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW NX10098 2.4.0(0.293/5/3) 2016-01-15 16:14 i686
>> OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 [Windows NT 6.1 build 7601] (WoW64)
>> Package: version 1.18.1-1 built 2016-02-18
>>
>> XWin was started with the following command line:
>>
>> /usr/bin/XWin :0 -multiwindow -auth
>>   /home/rhaskins/.serverauth.6900
>>
>
>
> Assuming that the GL driver is unable to manage correctly
> your driver, you can try to disable the hardware acceleration
>
> startxwin -- -nowgl -multiwindow
>
> After that I am afraid you need to wait Jon's support.
>
> Regards
> Marco
>
>
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