i've been using cygwin/x for many years and i did an installation to a new computer and when i try to start xwin i get a popup windows with the following error message:
LoadLibrary failed with error 87: the parameter is incorrect. i start xwin with the following command line: startxwin -- -clipboard -silent-dup-error -listen tcp and get the following output: Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.20.2.0 OS: CYGWIN_NT-10.0 Saruman 2.11.2(0.329/5/3) 2018-11-08 14:34 x86_64 OS: Windows 10 [Windows NT 10.0 build 17763] (Win64) Package: version 1.20.2-1 built 2018-10-24 XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/bin/XWin :0 -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error -listen tcp -auth /home/Dad/.serverauth.6180 (--) Windows reports only 2 mouse buttons, defaulting to -emulate3buttons (II) xorg.conf is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information LoadPreferences: /home/Dad/.XWinrc not found LoadPreferences: Loading /etc/X11/system.XWinrc LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... winDetectSupportedEngines - RemoteSession: yes winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed, allowing ShadowDDNL winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000005 winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI winScreenInit - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1920 height: 1200 depth: 32 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel glWinSelectGLimplementation: Loaded 'cygnativeGLthunk.dll' xinit: giving up xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused xinit: server error any help would be appreciated.. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
