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RE: installing xfree
- To: "CygwinXfree-List" <cygwin-xfree at xfree dot cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: installing xfree
- From: "Frank Meier" <fmeier at ifh dot ee dot ethz dot ch>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:35:10 +0200
- Cc: <moser at decodon dot com>, <mike dot ryder at tesco dot net>,"David Dawes" <dawes at xfree86 dot org>
- Reply-To: <meier at ieh dot etec dot uni-karlsruhe dot de>
Hello,
today, I ran into the same problem and fixed it by installing Xfnts.tgz
manually.
cd /usr/X11R6
tar -xf Xfnts.tar
and startxwin.bat starts well. The font files are identical (compare with diff)
but the files encodings.dir and fonts.dir are (very) different. Or execute
tar -xf Xfnts.tar lib/X11/fonts/misc/*.dir
after Xinstall.sh has finished.
mkfontdir is executed in Xinstall.sh for /local and /misc. Before this is done,
XWin.exe starts. Hence, mkfontdir causes the trouble.
Frank
>You are either missing fonts or they are corrupted. Someone reported that
>installing using Xinstall.sh gave this problem on his system. He installed
>Xfnt.tgz manually. Please check mail archive
>
>Suhaib
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mike ryder [mailto:mike.ryder@tesco.net]
>Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 9:58 AM
>To: cygwin-xfree@xfree.cygwin.com
>Subject: installing xfree
>
>Hi
>
>I am trying to install Xfree on cygwin and have followed the instructions as
>posted in the pdf documentation. XWin.exe starts but then aborts with the
>error message
>
>=========================================================
>winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
>winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
>winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 00000017
>winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
>winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Using Windows display depth of 16 bits per
>pix
>el
>winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 800 height 600
>winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - lPitch: 1600
>winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f BPRGB 6 d 16
>winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
>
>Fatal server error:
>could not open default font 'fixed'
>=========================================================
>
>Can you give me a pointer to where I might find the problem.
>
>Mike