Re: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Matt Wilkie
Okay, thanks Harold (and the others who've chimed in in other messages). I'll let you know what happens. It will take awhile though, I have to go find someone with bandwidth and cdburner. :) cheers, -matt Harold Hunt wrote: > No one knows. > > You can install with setup.exe over top of your

RE: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 2:41 PM > To: Charles Wilson > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. > Setup.exe XFree86 Packages > >

Re: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
Charles, Wouldn't that copy-on-reboot processing wait until I logged in the first time? Besides, XFree86/Cygwin was not running when I did the install, and probably had not been started between the previous system reboot (something I do daily) and the installation. Under those circumstances wo

RE: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 2:09 PM > > Actaully, I think the long delay was the copy-on-reboot stage of the > cygwin upgrade. I vaguely remember something about XFree needing to > update a LOT of in use files,

Re: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Randall R Schulz wrote: > More problem > symptoms followed. When the boot process completed the hardware scan and > got to the point where the "Welcome to Windows 2000" low-resolution > splash screen would be taken down and the monitor resolution switched, I > instead got a long period of dis

RE: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
Robert, No, I really didn't think so, but I was hoping that if someone saw the symptoms and the specific graphics hardware I was using they might have a specific recommendation or some diagnostic information for me. And I assume that the _apparent_ loss of a CPU was not actually that, but rat

RE: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Robert Collins
Randall, theres nothing in X or Cygwin that could cause a CPU to disappear on you. Rob

Re: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
Matt, Well, after waiting a while for some feedback, I took the plunge. I don't think there's a problem but... When (or after) I run XFree86/Cygwin, my system develops serious stability problems. The last time it happened, I first noticed that my dual-CPU system was showing only one CPU in th

RE: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Harold Hunt
TECTED] > Subject: Re: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe > XFree86 Packages > > > I haven't seen an answer to this one yet. Is that because no one knows? > I'm in the same boat. > > -matt wilkie > > > Randall R Schulz wro

Re: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Matt Wilkie
I haven't seen an answer to this one yet. Is that because no one knows? I'm in the same boat. -matt wilkie Randall R Schulz wrote: > Hi, > > I installed XFree86/Cygwin via the "semi-manual" procedure that predates > the release of Setup.exe packages. > > I want to know how I should handle s