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- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 19:48:14 -0400
You need to install CID fonts.
SecurityPolicy etc are warnings, you can ignore them. How did you extract
The tar.bz2 archives?
Are you on a text or binary mounted cygwin-drive?
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mellor, Mike [mailto:Mike.mellor@tbe.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 6:49 PM
> To: Harold Hunt; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Returned mail: User unknown
>
> Harold -
>
> I did have the Win 95 resolution set to 8bpp, changing it to 16 allowed
> XWin
> to start up, but it isn't working correctly yet. All that shows up is a
> checkered screen. Here are the error messages that I get:
>
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> .
> .
> .
> error opening security policy file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing
> from list!
>
>
> I do not have an xserver or CID directories.
>
> I also noticed that the /usr/X11R6 directory is actually labeled
> usr/X11r6.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 12:11 PM
> To: Mellor, Mike; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Returned mail: User unknown
>
>
> Mike,
>
> > Exception: STATUS_INTEGER_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO at eip=004A66EC
>
> It would be helpful if you could include the output of XWin prior to the
> STATUS_INTEGER_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO.
>
> However, this error is almost always the result of trying to run XWin on a
> Windows machine with the display configured to display 8 bits per pixel.
> Cygwin/XFree86 has no code to support 8 bits per pixel and it often
> crashes
> with this message when a user starts XWin in 8 bits per pixel mode.
>
> Thank you for your interest in the project, and please report if your
> problem is solved,
>
> Harold