On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Niall Gormley wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed the latest cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-5.0 jewel 1.5.10(0.116/4/2)) > and the 6.7.0.0-9 release of cygwin-xfree. > > When running startx (or XWin directly) > > The XWin system hangs halfway through startup @ the following line: > > .... > .... > .... > winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () > MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support > XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack > of shar > ed memory support in the kernel > (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 > (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00001809" (00001809) > (EE) Keyboardlayout "Irish" (00001809) is unknown > Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options = > "(null)"
Hm. It is stuck when loading the keyboard definition. Does XWin -kb work? > I have installed this with no success on 2 computers now!! > > I've tries mounting the tmp filesystem as a block device, and running XWin > directly. do you mean binmode? You can't mount directories as block devices. Only in textmode and binmode. What does the mount command report? BTW: DO you know the layout code for the irish keyboard? I'll add "ie" to the list of predifined keyboards. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723