RE: almost there

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Your fonts.dir and fonts.aliases files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts are
corrupted
either rebuild them or copy the fonts from a Linux machine

Suhaib

> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of John A.
> Turner
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 2:06 PM
> To: Cygwin XFree86 mailing list
> Subject: almost there
>
>
> been watching the progress, decided to give it a shot
>
> 0. environment is Win2kSP1, cygwin 1.1.4(0.26/3/2) 2000-08-03,
>    TNT2 video card
>
> 1. downloaded all the xfree86-4.0-* tar files (most dated 7/19/2000)
>    from ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/xfree/xc-4-binaries/
>
> 2. untarred into top-level cygwin tree, so everything went into
>    /usr/X11R6
>
> 3. added /usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/X11R6/lib to path - everything is
>    seen by which in bash
>
> 4. set DISPLAY to 127.0.0.1:0.0
>
> ok, so that would seem to be all the setup that's needed... is there
> anything I'm missing?
>
> at a bash prompt, I try XWin -screen 8 1024x768x16 (lifted from
> startxwin.bat) - screen flickers a few times, then dies - this is
> left in the window:
>
> /usr/X11R6/bin$ XWin -screen 8 1024x768x16
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> pwin->width = 00000500
> pwin->height = 00000400
> pwin->paddedWidth = 00000a00
> pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000010
> calling winAllocateFramebufferMemory
> calling cfb16ScreenInit( 0a0586c8, 16df0000, 00000500, 00000400,
> 00000064, 00000064, 00000500 )
> Successful addition of Screen 0xa0588c0 0xa0586c8
> pwin->width = 00000500
> pwin->height = 00000400
> pwin->paddedWidth = 00000a00
> pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000010
> calling winAllocateFramebufferMemory
> calling cfb16ScreenInit( 0a05b750, 16df0000, 00000500, 00000400,
> 00000064, 00000064, 00000500 )
> Successful addition of Screen 0xa05b570 0xa05b750
> pwin->width = 00000500
> pwin->height = 00000400
> pwin->paddedWidth = 00000a00
> pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000010
> calling winAllocateFramebufferMemory
> calling cfb16ScreenInit( 0a05e6d8, 16df0000, 00000500, 00000400,
> 00000064, 00000064, 00000500 )
> Successful addition of Screen 0xa05b618 0xa05e6d8
> pwin->width = 00000500
> pwin->height = 00000400
> pwin->paddedWidth = 00000a00
> pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000010
> calling winAllocateFramebufferMemory
> calling cfb16ScreenInit( 0a0615f0, 16df0000, 00000500, 00000400,
> 00000064, 00000064, 00000500 )
> Successful addition of Screen 0xa05ba10 0xa0615f0
> pwin->width = 00000500
> pwin->height = 00000400
> pwin->paddedWidth = 00000a00
> pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000010
> calling winAllocateFramebufferMemory
> calling cfb16ScreenInit( 0a064578, 16df0000, 00000500, 00000400,
> 00000064, 00000064, 00000500 )
> Successful addition of Screen 0xa061908 0xa064578
> pwin->width = 00000500
> pwin->height = 00000400
> pwin->paddedWidth = 00000a00
> pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000010
> calling winAllocateFramebufferMemory
> calling cfb16ScreenInit( 0a067500, 16df0000, 00000500, 00000400,
> 00000064, 00000064, 00000500 )
> Successful addition of Screen 0xa064368 0xa067500
> pwin->width = 00000500
> pwin->height = 00000400
> pwin->paddedWidth = 00000a00
> pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000010
> calling winAllocateFramebufferMemory
> calling cfb16ScreenInit( 0a06a388, 16df0000, 00000500, 00000400,
> 00000064, 00000064, 00000500 )
> Successful addition of Screen 0xa067808 0xa06a388
> pwin->width = 00000500
> pwin->height = 00000400
> pwin->paddedWidth = 00000a00
> pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000010
> calling winAllocateFramebufferMemory
> calling cfb16ScreenInit( 0a06d2f8, 16df0000, 00000500, 00000400,
> 00000064, 00000064, 00000500 )
> Successful addition of Screen 0xa06a2d0 0xa06d2f8
> pwin->width = 00000400
> pwin->height = 00000300
> pwin->paddedWidth = 00000800
> pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000010
> calling winAllocateFramebufferMemory
> calling cfb16ScreenInit( 0a070298, 16df0000, 00000500, 00000400,
> 00000064, 00000064, 00000500 )
> Successful addition of Screen 0xa070110 0xa070298
> error opening security policy file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
>
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> is there a path I need to set for fonts?  they are there, in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
>
> this msg from the archives:
>
>   http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2000-q2/msg00189.html
>
> mentions something similar, but says it was fixed, and that msg
> was well prior
> to the date on these tarballs
>
> can anyone help?
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> -John Turner