RE: startx fails with: could not open default font 'fixed'

["Karr, David" <david dot karr at cacheflow dot com>]

Ok, I've looked at the FAQ entry, but I could use a little more information.

First of all, the FAQ entry seems slightly wrong.  The paragraph on point
"1" begins thusly:

   Using Xinstall.sh to install Cygwin/XFree86 on a text-mode Cygwin mount
rather than binary-mode mount. You will       
   need to change your default Cygwin mount mode to binary-mode and rerun
the Xinstall.sh script ...

If I understand this correctly, the first sentence should have "text-mode"
and "binary-mode" reversed.

One thing that's not completely clear about this is whether I can change the
mount to binary, install XFree86, and then change it back to text mode, and
have everything work.

Now, on the alternative idea of "manually ungziping and untarring", what
exactly do I ungzip and untar, and where do I put it?  The FAQ entry refers
to using a non-Cygwin-aware unpacker, like "Winzip", which I don't presently
have (although I have "jar" from Java, which suffices most of the time, but
probably won't for this).  The FAQ entry also doesn't say what to unpack, or
where to put it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Suhaib Siddiqi [mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 2:22 PM
To: 'cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com'
Subject: RE: startx fails with: could not open default font 'fixed'



Fonts problem.  Try installing fonts by manually ungziping and untaring.  I
belive Harold has discussed this problem in Users Guide or his FAQ.  This
also had been answered several times on the mailing list.  A search on
mailing list would also have given you answers.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karr, David [mailto:david.karr@cacheflow.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 5:14 PM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com'
> Subject: startx fails with: could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> 
> When I try to run "startx", I get the following output, which 
> ends with the error about the "fixed" font.  What could I be 
> doing wrong?
> 
> -----------------------------
> ddxProcessArgument ()
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to 
> root winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000 
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed 
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD 
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed 
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 
> 0000001f winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking 
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Using Windows display depth 
> of 16 bits per pixel winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - 
> WindowClient w 1274 h 970 r 1274 l 0 b 970 t 0 
> winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - lPitch: 2548 
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 
> 0000001f BPRGB 6 d 16 winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to 
> fbCreateDefColormap ()
> 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> giving up.
> xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> -----------------------------
>