Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <200206171903.g5HJ36w33066@pilot28.cl.msu.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:03:06 EDT To: Hal Rottenberg , Cygwin Subject: RE: Problem starting X From: Harold L Hunt Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Hal, First, wrong mailing list. Use cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, where I have redirected this discussion. (Make sure not to reply-to-all since that would send yet another email to the cygwin@cygwin.com mailing list.) > And yes, I checked, xwin is really not on my hard drive. You mean you've looked for XWin.exe (that's the exact capitalization and extension)? From a Cygwin bash prompt, run: cat /etc/setup/installed.db | grep XFree86 You should get ouput something like: XFree86-base XFree86-base-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0 XFree86-bin XFree86-bin-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0 XFree86-doc XFree86-doc-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0 XFree86-etc XFree86-etc-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0 XFree86-f100 XFree86-f100-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2 0 XFree86-fenc XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2 0 XFree86-fnts XFree86-fnts-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2 0 XFree86-fscl XFree86-fscl-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2 0 XFree86-html XFree86-html-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0 XFree86-lib XFree86-lib-4.2.0-3.tar.bz2 0 XFree86-man XFree86-man-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0 XFree86-prog XFree86-prog-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0 XFree86-startup-scripts XFree86-startup-scripts-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2 0 XFree86-xserv XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-5.tar.bz2 0 The key package here is XFree86-xserv. Please report your version number for this package. Harold -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/