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startx fails with: could not open default font 'fixed'
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: startx fails with: could not open default font 'fixed'
- From: "Karr, David" <david dot karr at cacheflow dot com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:14:20 -0700
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?
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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.
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