To clarify, Cygwin/X worked fine for me when I was running 32 bit Vista, but I had to resort to the XMing solution under AMD64.
Kind Regards, Brian Wisti On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Scott Fordin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cygwin does indeed run on 32-bit versions of Windows Vista. > Don't know about 64-bit versions. In my experience, there > are a few catches to getting Cygwin to work on Vista: > > 1. Run the Cygwin setup as Administrator and in XP > Compatibility Mode. > > 2. I had better luck when I did the install in two > stages: First, I just downloaded the packages, then > I ran setup again and chose the install from local > repository option. > > 3. After installation, run Cygwin's rebaseall command > from an ash (not bash) shell. > > 4. When you finally run the Cygwin bash shell for real, > be sure to use Vista's "Run as Administrator" option. > > 5. Also make sure that your firewall is not blocking > Xwin.exe or bash.exe. > > FWIW, the Xming X server works just fine on Vista, and you > can use Xming as your X Server when running PuTTY or many if > not all of the Cygwin X-based apps. > > Hope this helps, > > Scott > > Monson Hayes wrote: >> Not sure how to reply to a thread, but here are the details of what >> happens when I try to run Cygwin/X. First, I would like to comment >> that the following was suggested: >> >> Be sure to set up $DISPLAY in your .bashrc: >> >> export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 >> >> What is interesting, is in my installation I cannot find a .bashrc >> file, although I did find one in my Windows XP installation. >> >> I am told to look at the XWin.log file on my computer running Windows >> Vista when I get the following fatal error: >> >> "A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit Releast >> 6.8.99.901-4 XWin was started with the following command llin >> >> /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -multiwindow - clipboard -silent-dup-error >> >> The XWin.log file is: >> >> (WW) /tmp mounted int textmode _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != >> 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created. (II) XF86Config is >> not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html >> for more information winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows >> display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating >> DIB with width: 1680 height: 1050 depth: 32 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 winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello >> winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () >> 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 shared >> memory support in the kernel (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, >> rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) (--) >> Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4" (--) 8 >> mouse buttons found Could not init font path element >> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! >> >> Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' >> >> -- 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/ >> > > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/