Re: xfree86 install makes wininit not working

2002-04-21 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Already know this (I develop for Wine Emulator :)) But that's ok to review point after point to see a failure somewhere. So, you are reporting this problem for an actual version of Windows, then, i.e., you're not trying to run setup.exe on Wine, right? cgf No, it's a real Windows :)

RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working

2002-04-21 Thread Harold Hunt
PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: xfree86 install makes wininit not working Harold Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Basically: do we need to pull the Cygwin/XFree86 setup.exe release for now, or can I go on with making

Re: xfree86 install makes wininit not working

2002-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 03:15:05PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote: In related news: I think I'm going to hold off on making any wide-spread announcements about Cygwin/XFree86 being available via setup.exe. I'm not comfortable with the installation process causing several minute delays in starting the

RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working

2002-04-21 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Ilya Goldin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 3:52 AM When I restarted, Win2K (which is what I'm running here, with all the latest patches), got stuck at the end of its second ... Having read the list since, I surmise that the

RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working

2002-04-20 Thread Harold Hunt
Robert, Hmm. What happens if you supply a (say) 16Kb subset of the wininit.ini file to windows ME - does it process it correctly? Rob Hi Rob, Renaming is done - but now renamed file haved 8.3 names with ~ and are unusable, I think, by X, since names are incorrect - too bad.

Re: xfree86 install makes wininit not working

2002-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 12:59:26PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: What's your prognosis on this? Is this a problem that is specific to Sylvain's machine or is this going to be a problem because Cygwin/XFree86 has over 4000 files in the font directories? I haven't come to a root cause yet.

RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working

2002-04-20 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: xfree86 install makes wininit not working On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 12:59:26PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: What's your prognosis

RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working

2002-04-19 Thread Harold Hunt
Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: xfree86 install makes wininit not working And here it begins... Cygwin/XFree86 has its own mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want help you should ask the experts. I've

RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Harold Hunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 12:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Robert Collins Subject: RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working Robert, Cygwin's setup.exe doesn't use wininit.ini, does it? I'm

RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
I realised the ini file was present in Sylvain's email. Sylvain - do the .NEW files exist? Are the paths correct? ROb

RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working

2002-04-19 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
It does, via the proscribed windows API to perform copy-on-reboot for in-use files in win95. Windows is meant to perform the copies before loading the GUI, and then remove the ini entries after it does that. Already know this (I develop for Wine Emulator :)) But that's ok to review point

RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working

2002-04-19 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
As I wrote in last message, I attached output of cygcheck. ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Sat Apr

RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working

2002-04-19 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
--- Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I realised the ini file was present in Sylvain's email. Sylvain - do the .NEW files exist? Are the paths correct? ROb Yes, I checked for some of these, the .new exists in the correct paths (checked in dos box too to see if 8.3 names are