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RE: Problems with starting Xfree86 on Windows NT
- To: "Peter Langer" <langer at imsm dot fhg dot de>, <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Problems with starting Xfree86 on Windows NT
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 12:16:49 -0400
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-error-font-eof
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Peter Langer
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 11:50 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Problems with starting Xfree86 on Windows NT
>
>
> Hello,
> I installed Cygwin on an Windows-NT Machine. All shell based
> programms work fine.
> But I have big problems with the X-Server:
> I try:
> $ ./Xwin.exe -screen 0 600x800x32
> ddxProcessArgument () - screen - argc: 4 i: 1
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000001b
> winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDD () - Using Windows display depth of 32
> bits per pixel
>
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 600 height 800
> winInitVisualsShadowDD () - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 32
> winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
>
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> For about one second I see a window, but than the window disapears and
> the message Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> is printed.
> What can I do?
> Where is the problem?
> I installed all packages and exspecially a font directory exists.
>
> I hope for Your help.
>
> Peter Langer
>
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