Re: could not open default font 'fixed'

[Frank-Michael Moser <moser at decodon dot com>]

5 hours before I just had the same problem using 
Xinstall.sh on my W2K box. So I extracted the fonts 
manually - goto /usr/X11R6 ant type:

$ tar -xvzf <path where to find Xfnts.tgz>/Xfnts.tgz

Now everything works fine.

Frank-Michael.

P.S.: 

I wondered why I have to add the -ac switch to start X,
even if I start a local session only? It took me some time
to find out that thing ;-)



Christian Lang wrote:
> 
> If I start the x-server with "XWin -screen 0 800x600x16" it shows the error
> message below.
> 
> I used the install-script Xinstall.sh to install XFree (so I didn't use
> WinZip) and I installed all font packages, including Type1, misc and 75dpi.
> I downloaded both, cygwin and cygwin/XFree86 yesterday, so it should be the
> latest version. What can I do?
> 
> 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 () - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000001f
> winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Using Windows display depth of 16 bits per
> pixel
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 800 height 600
> winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - lPitch: 1600
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f BPRGB 6 d 16
> winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
> 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'