XWin95 & fonts

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent dot pinchart at capflow dot com>]

Hi everybody.

I'm quite new to cygwin/xfree86, but it seems to me that I did something 
wrong, or missed something in the xfree86 installation process.

I downloaded the 4.0.3 binaries, and installed them in d:\cygwin. I 
mounted d:\cygwin to /, so that xfree86 is in /usr/X11R6.

I then tried to start xfree86 with the startwin.bat script (and then 
manually, using XWin95 -screen 0 1024x768x16), and I always get the same 
error message

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

The fonts are installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, and if I remove 
them the x server complains about not being able to add the font paths, 
so I guess that I put the fonts in the proper location. I installed all 
the binary packages (DLL, Win, devel, fonts, programs, twm, xterm, ...).

Could anyone help me with that ? If I try to specify another default 
font with -fn I get the same problem, and of course I checked to be sure 
that the 'fixed' font is in the fonts/misc directory.

I wanted to change a few settings in the XF86Config file, but couldn't 
figure where to put it (/etc/X11 seemed to have no effect).

Hope to hear from you soon.

Laurent Pinchart