Reid I did as you requested - see below. BTW, there is a delay of 3-4 seconds for cmds like 'ps -ef'. Is this normal? (Thinkpad T41 with 2Gb RAM)
>> Open a cygwin bash shell, using cygwin.bat. I did this from cmd prompt. It appeared to be stuck for what seemed a long time - though maybe it was actually between 30-60 secs. Then the prompt came alive and resized itself. -------------- >> make sure that X is not running,,, >> $ ps -ef | grep X >> should not list Xwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ps -ef | grep X [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ps -ef UID PID PPID TTY STIME COMMAND JOrmerod 3412 1 con 07:53:17 /usr/bin/bash JOrmerod 4008 3412 con 07:58:20 /usr/bin/ps --------------- >> from the command line call >> $ startxwin.sh >> what does this result in? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ pwd /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/John Ormerod [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/bin $ startxwin.sh [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/bin $ Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.2.0-4 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error _XSERVTransmkdir: Cannot create /tmp/.X11-unix with root ownership winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information (==) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TT F/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/X11R6/ lib/ X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" winPrefsLoadPreferences: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/system.XWinrc LoadPreferences: syntax error, unexpected STRING line 1 winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007 winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1024 height: 768 depth: 32 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 null screen fn ReparentWindow null screen fn RestackWindow InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello 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: "00000809" (00000809) (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (United Kingdom)" (809), type "4" Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "gb" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null )" ------------------------------ I did some further investigations - results in separate append to keep this one down in size Regards, John ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- John Ormerod erebor limited -----Original Message----- From: Reid Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 September 2005 00:22 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is my X Server not fully started? (Rel: 6.8.2.0-4) Try the following. Open a cygwin bash shell, using cygwin.bat. make sure that X is not running,,, $ ps -ef | grep X should not list Xwin from the command line call $ startxwin.sh what does this result in? -- 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/