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fixed font problem: mkfontdir didn't solve
- To: "cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com" <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: fixed font problem: mkfontdir didn't solve
- From: Alex Rocha Prado <alexrp at terra dot com dot br>
- Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 11:35:03 -0300
Well. let me tell exactly what I did.
1) got cygwin package and uncompressed it at c:\cygwin
2) runned mount to bind c:\cygwin as / (textmode)
3) my path variable is showed bellow:
PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\CYGWIN\USR\BIN;C:\UTIL\ZIP;C:\CYGWIN\USR\X11R6\BIN;\USR\BIN\X11
strange... I didn't set "\usr\bin\x11" to PATH... It was added after I
tried to run xfree 4.0.
3) got all binary packages of xfree 4.0 and uncompressed it using a
bzip2 for win32 (not the cygwin bzip2) (I used WinZIP for all tar
extraction)
4) tried to run xwin typing startxwin and the screen apear for some
seconds and it closes. guess the error message!
"could not open default font 'fixed'"
5) read some e-mails in this list and runned mkfontdir in all subdirs of
/usr/x11r6/lib/x11/fonts and its subdiretories too (like latin2/100dpi).
but I'm still getting the same error message.
well, I didn't find much documentation about troubleshooting with XFREE
4.0, but this error message seems to be very common (as I've read on the
net).
now I have no idea what's wrong. any idea ?
thank you very much
Alex Rocha Prado
UFRGS - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
GME - Microeletronics Group
Brazil