On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Andrew Markebo wrote: > Hmm just a quick check, the bash-prompt you fire it up from, is it > started from within cygwin X-windows? Is the environment variable > $DISPLAY set to something? (you have started X-windows, and tell > abacus to where to find it)
a bash prompt in an xterm says: $ echo $TERM $DISPLAY xterm 127.0.0.1:0.0 > I wonder, it seems like you have to blame abaqus, not cygwin, it maybe > only checks if exceed is running, if not, it complains, doesn't check > for generic X-displayer. Maybe there's a way to trick abaqus to use XFree86 instead of Exceed, but I don't know. > Thought 3 or something.. seems to do some 3d? Maybe something it can't > find in the cygwin X-displayer, but in exceed? That may be a problem if I can ever get it to use my x-server. Kevin. > /Andy > > [...] > > | I have ABAQUS 6.3.1 for Windows installed on my Windows 2000 laptop. I > | also have the current cygwin and cygwin-xfree installed and working > | properly and I'm using the waimea window manager. > | > | I'm starting ABAQUS from a Windows Command Prompt via "abaqus -cae" or > | from the Star Menu or from a cygwin bash shell. I get the follow error > | messages: > | > | "ABAQUS Error: The Exceed executable could not be located. This may > | indicate a problem with the Exceed installation or an upgrade to the > | Exceed installation." > | > | "First, please check that you have Exceed installed and working correctly. > | Then, please reinstall your ABAQUS Products in order to resolve this > | problem. If this issue persists, please contact your local ABAQUS support > | office for further assistance." > | > | I don't have Exceed installed and I was hoping there is a way to use the > | cygwin XFree86 server in place of Exceed. I'm assuming I have to edit the > | abaqus_v6.env and/or graphicsConfig.env files, but I don't know what > | changes to make or if it is even possible to do this. Maybe Exceed is > | really required, as the ABAQUS documentation indicates. > > -- > You believe in the Users? > -Tron > > Please note, new email, @telia.com -> @comhem.se > >
