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RE: 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: RE: startx fails with: could not open default font 'fixed'
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 17:22:26 -0400
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?
>
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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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>