RE: installing xfree

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

.....and is your Cygwin mount point in text mode or binmode? This can be a
problem too...  These problems are showing up on MAJORITY of the  users
workstations who do not follow instructions properly as mentioned in User's
Guide

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Meier [mailto:fmeier@ifh.ee.ethz.ch]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 5:35 AM
> To: CygwinXfree-List
> Cc: moser@decodon.com; mike.ryder@tesco.net; David Dawes
> Subject: RE: installing xfree
> 
> 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