After installing service pack 1 to System 7 I got the "Failed to activate core devices." so I updated to xorg-server-1.10.2-1.
I no longer am getting the Xwin modal error window, but Xwin is still not starting. -Stephen More On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Jon TURNEY <[email protected]> wrote: > The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: > > *** xorg-server-1.10.2-1 > *** xorg-server-dmx-1.10.2-1 > > These packages contain XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers. > > In addition to upstream fixes [1], the following cygwin-specific changes > have been made since 1.10.1-1: > > * Use system() rather than pipe() & fork() to invoke xkbcomp. This should > work around the X server being unable to startup with "Failed to activate > core devices" error when cygwin's fork() emulation is unable to work > successfully. (Launching applications from the tray menu still uses fork() > and might still fail on problem systems, and other cygwin programs might > still fail to fork(), but hopefully this will prevent these problems from > being reported as an X server issue quite as much). (This should make > Cygwin/X FAQ 9.15 obsolete) > * Automatically activate the -nolock option if /tmp is on a FAT filesystem. > (This should make Cygwin/X FAQ 2.3 obsolete) > * Automatically activate the -emulate3buttons option if less than 3 mouse > buttons are reported. Add -noemulate3buttons option so this can be > reversed. > * To facilitate testing of llvmpipe/softpipe, if the GALLIUM_DRIVER env var > is set, load the swrastg rather than swrast rasterizer. > * In -wgl mode, create a new dispatch table, rather than modifying the > existing one to avoid a GLX crash. > > 9ea8c1f306aff9cd32542ee9f47af400 *xorg-server-1.10.2-1.tar.bz2 > 974750046285c50f8c91244120af5d41 *xorg-server-dmx-1.10.2-1.tar.bz2 > b525dda038b3b91b347699aa3de0966a *xorg-server-1.10.2-1-src.tar.bz2 > > [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2011-May/001675.html > > -- > Jon TURNEY > Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/
