Marco Schuler schrieb: >>>> Why is everything mounted in textmode? >>> Hm, I don't know. That's just what cygwin did on installation. Is >>> there any problem about this? >> Well, usually it is not what cygwin does. I don't know if it does any >> paticular harm, but there is no reason to have / mounted textmode. > > It seems as this is default from mount. man mount sais: "By default, > mounts are in text mode"
Where did you get your cygwin from? My mount is telling me that binmode is the default. > But I'd say the textmode is not the problem why I cannot start X? No, but it is a hint that there is something wrong with your cygwin installation. Attach the output of "cygcheck -c" -- 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/