I already follow Jerry Lowry's suggestion delete the whold cygwin folder and reloand the cygwin at a newsite http://cygwin.lowprofilelinks.com but it did not have cygwin-x folder and startx still nobt work-------- ------------------------------
Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.7.3.0 (10703000) Build Date: 2009-12-22 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /home/DELL/.serverauth.1704 ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1920 h 1200 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning 2010-01-14 17:02:06 _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 2010-01-14 17:02:06 _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/delluser:0 2010-01-14 17:02:06 _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6 2010-01-14 17:02:06 winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 2010-01-14 17:02:06 (II) xorg.conf is not supported 2010-01-14 17:02:06 (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information 2010-01-14 17:02:06 winPrefsLoadPreferences: /etc/X11/system.XWinrc 2010-01-14 17:02:06 LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... 2010-01-14 17:02:06 winGetDisplay: DISPLAY=:0.0 2010-01-14 17:02:06 winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP 2010-01-14 17:02:06 winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed 2010-01-14 17:02:06 winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed 2010-01-14 17:02:06 winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007 2010-01-14 17:02:06 winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking 2010-01-14 17:02:06 winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel 2010-01-14 17:02:07 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff 2010-01-14 17:02:07 Screen 0 added at XINERAMA coordinate (0,0). 2010-01-14 17:02:07 MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support 2010-01-14 17:02:07 XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel 2010-01-14 17:02:07 (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so 2010-01-14 17:02:07 (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 2010-01-14 17:02:07 [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/TTF/, removing from list! 2010-01-14 17:02:07 [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF/, removing from list! 2010-01-14 17:02:07 [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! 2010-01-14 17:02:07 (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp 2010-01-14 17:02:07 (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap 2010-01-14 17:02:07 XKB: Failed to compile keymap 2010-01-14 17:02:07 Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config. 2010-01-14 17:02:07 Fatal server error: 2010-01-14 17:02:07 Failed to activate core devices. -------------------- please help, Eric -- 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/