[Xastir] network cygwin install

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 10:37:35PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <gerry.creager at tamu.edu> flavor, containing:
> 64MB is a little light for serious X work.

Well, it's a very light for windows+cygwin+X at any rate.  

> Tyson S. wrote:
> > I finally gave up on the stupid computer and ripped the hard
> >drive out of it. I will probably run the rest of the computer over with
> >the D6 Caterpillar we have at work. 

Nah.  Give it the optimum hardware acceleration for a windows computer --- 
9.81 m/s^2 applied for at least 10 seconds, followed by abrupt hardware 
deceleration.

> I have since installed the hard
> >drive into a pentium 166 with 64 megs of RAM and although the operating
> >system works great now, I can not get the Xwindows BASH thing to start
> >so Xastir can be started.

Can you start the non-X bash window using the regular cygwin icon?  That
shouldn't be anywhere nearly the memory pig that X would be, and it should
work if your cygwin installation isn't broken.

If so, try issuing a "startx" command from that window and see if there are 
any useful error messages displayed.  

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