Hi Dr. Volker, Thank you for the helpful response. I did check in /usr/bin and sure enough, there was a gs.exe there so I removed it. There was also a gs.exe in /usr/X11R6/bin and left that one alone. Now ghostview displays the pdf or postscript file with no problems
Thank you for the help, I really appreciate it. James E. Merritt --- "Dr. Volker Zell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "James" == James Merritt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > James> That being said, I am having a little > problem with > James> using ghostview under Cygwin/X11. > Ghostview seems to > James> work porperly, it comes up just great. > But when I try > James> to view any kind of file (pdf, ps, etc. ) > or when I > James> run lyx and try to view pdf after > creating a document > James> from there, a dialog box pops up with the > message: > > James> Unknown device: x11 > > Search the archives. This has been discussed to > death. You have the > non-X11 version of gs in /usr/bin which maybe > shadows your gs version in > /usr/X11R6/bin. If not reinstall the X11 version of > gs. > > James> James E. Merritt > > Ciao > Volker > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/
