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RE: Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 07:29:05 -0400
Use latest installation script Xinstall.sh and the latest released binaries.
Refer to User's Guide posted yesterday by Harold Hunt.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arne Hårseth [mailto:arne.haarseth@iname.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 5:56 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
>
>
> I think this got lost so I try again:
>
> Hi!
>
> I have just downloaded Cygwin XFree86 to my
> D:\download\cygwin drive. From
> there I run setup installing to the default C:\cygwin
> catalogue. I installed
> cygwin acording to the documentation and it workes well. I
> then copied the
> Xfree bz2 files to the cygwin root catalog (using cp from the
> cygwin shell),
> unziped them with the command "bunzip2 *.bz2" and then
> untared each of them
> with the tar -xf <tar-fila> command. I then added
> /usr/X11R6/bin to the path
> variable and run startx. I then get the following error messages:
>
> $ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin
>
> arseth@OLEBRUMM ~
> $ startx
>
> Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000000f
> winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Using Windows display depth
> of 16 bits per
> pix
> el
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 768 height 714
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 0000f800 000007e0
> 0000001f BPRGB 6 d 16
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Returning
> winFinishScreenInitFB () - Calling winCreateDefColormap ()
> winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
> error opening security policy file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> Could not init font path element
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, removing
> from l
> ist!
>
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
> after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>
> arseth@OLEBRUMM ~
>
> I can see from an other mail that one should install fonts and
> xfree86-4.1.0-devel. I installed all the fonts from the
> download area. Are
> there any aditional font I should download. Where can I find
> them? Where can
> I find the xfree86-4.1.0-devel? I have used my favourite search engine
> HotBot but I can't find this file.
>
> Best regards
> Arne
>