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Re: [PLUG] cygwin (win32/free) X servers / Debian GNU/Win32 ?
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I like did the install quite easily of the cygnus X server.
but neither the cygnus servers. directx or the other one work
well. limited to 256 colors. didn't take very kindly to connecting to my
debian box either. if your running it localy it might be ok (and if your
using 256 colors. but it needs allot of work. I'd like a free X server
for Win but i'd rather just run it when i can. Just some observations by
me. I'm not sure if you gave the sever a good try or not.
N-Tropy
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 darxus@chaosreigns.com wrote:
>
> Cygnus Win32 (cygwin - http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin) is something
> I'm sure I've mentinoed to people on this list before. And I mentioned it
> wednesday at the plug meeting.
>
> Cygwin is the opposite of WINE. It is an implimentation of the linux libs
> under windows. You can download a source tarball, extract it, run make,
> and get a binary that will run under windows. And since we have the
> source to the entire environment we're emulating (linux), it's lots more
> stable and functional than wine.
>
> If you do the full install of cygwin, you get 24mb of gzipped gnu
> utilities.
>
> This stuff can be extreemly useful, giving you the power of unix utilities
> when you're trapped in a windows environment.
>
> One of the problems this project has faced was the lack of a free X server
> for the win32 platform. Porting XFree86 was a problem because of the way
> the hardware was accessed.
>
> That problem has recently been fixed. There are now apparently 3. One is
> based on VNC, one is built on DirectX (both GPLed), and the other is a
> port of XFree86. I made sure I could get one of them to work before
> writing this post (it happened to be the DirectX one).
>
> I'm rather excited about this. Now just about any gnu app can be ported
> to, and run on, win32.
>
> It has renewed my desire for an entire Debian port... "Debian GNU/Win32" ?
>
> Yes, I know "that's just wrong". But it would rock.
>
>
> I don't know how much I would be able to put into the project though,
> since the only windows box that I currently use regularly I am going to be
> installing Linux as the primary operating system on relatively soon. But
> my rather strong desire to see the port happen could result in a fair
> amount of effort from me. I really want to see dpkg & apt ported.
>
> This post might have been more appropriate for the PADS/NADS mailing
> lists, but I believe everyone on both of those is here, and there are more
> here who might be interested.
>
> There are mailing lists (including one dedicated to the xfree port) at the
> url mentioned above.
>
> Below are my experiences with one of the cygwin X servers.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:36:07 -0400 (EDT)
> From: darxus@chaosreigns.com
> To: ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
> Subject: how I got an X server & xterm to run under cygwin
>
>
> This is what I'd like to send to the cygwin-xfree list, but I haven't been
> able to subscribe.
>
>
> The process of getting an X server to run under cygwin was painful. I
> thought I'd tell the rest of you what I ended up doing that worked.
>
>
> 1) Download
> ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/sourceware/cygwin/latest/setup.exe and save
> it to a temporary folder.
>
> 2) execute setup.exe
>
> 3) tell it you want the root directory to be c:\ (must be \)
>
> 4) tell it you want to install from the internet (i)
>
> 5) select a mirror (I suggest #24, ftp.freesoftware.com) -- it'll take a
> while to download & install 24mb of .tgz's.
>
> (cygwin is now installed)
>
> 6) Download
> ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/sourceware/cygwin/xfree/contrib/X-servers-v-1.0.tar.bz2
> and save it to a temporary folder.
>
> 7) Open a dos shell
>
> 8) execute these commands:
>
> \bin\cygwin
> umount /usr/lib
> umount /usr/bin
> exit
>
> 9) cd to the directory containing X-servers-v-1.0.tar.bz2
>
> 10) execute these commands:
>
> \bin\bunzip2 X-servers-v1.0.tar.bz2
> cd \
>
> 11) Assuming you downloaded the X-servers file to
> c:\dl\X-servers-v-1.0.tar.bz2, run "\bin\tar -xvf /dl/cygwin/X-serv*"
>
>
> 12) in bash, umount 2 directories
>
> 13) rename c:\bin\cygwin1.dll cygwin1.bak
>
> 13) run c:\usr\bin\X11\startdx
>
>
> Notes:
>
> 1) If you don't do the umounts, the X server stuff will be put in the
> wrong place. Why were those mount points set up that way ? error is
> "Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/lib/X11/rgb'".
>
> 2) If you don't rename \bin\cygwin1.dll, xterm won't load -- error is like
> "*** shared region is corrupted. inited 15 0 [main] ? 0
> lock_pinfo_for_update: rc 0, pinfo_mutex 0xFFFFFFFF, Win32 error 6" (even
> if you load it from the batch file). What's up with these conflicting
> libs ?
>
> 3) I haven't gotten to testing how much stuff I broke in the process of
> making the X server & xterm work. When they load, I get the error
> message:
>
> Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
> Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
> Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default
> Failed to open input method
>
> ..and it looks like twm's behavior/color properties aren't loaded.
>
> 5) The machine I'm using is running windows 98.
>
>
> I am extreemly happy to finally see X servers available for cygwin. Now I
> can't wait for Debian GNU/Win32 :)
>
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