That was a tough bug to track down. Perhaps this should be mentioned in the installation instructions which are on the XFree86 web page.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Hourihane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nikolay Metchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 11:48 PM Subject: Re: Cannot start XServer > Sounds like you need to mount your drives in binary mode, and > retry the installation as the font files don't quite work right > in text mode. > > Alan. > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:39:21PM -0000, Nikolay Metchev wrote: > > This is what XWin.log says: > > ddxProcessArgument () - Initializing default screens > > winInitializeDefaultScreens () - w 1024 h 768 > > ddxProcessArgument () - screen - argc: 5 i: 1 > > 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 32 bits per > > pixel > > winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 716 1024 > > winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 716 1024 > > winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient w 1018 h 691 r 1018 l 0 b > > 691 t 0 > > winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - Returning > > winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - lPitch: 4072 > > winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 32 > > winLayerCreate () - dwDepth 32 > > winRandRInit () > > winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () > > winScreenInit () - returning > > > > Fatal server error: > > could not open default font 'fixed' > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Alan Hourihane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Nikolay Metchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 11:10 PM > > Subject: Re: Cannot start XServer > > > > > > > What does /tmp/XWin.log have to say ? > > > > > > Alan. > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:37:49PM -0000, Nikolay Metchev wrote: > > > > I sent the e-mail below . I have been asked to provide additional > > > > information. I am using Windows XP. I have a TCP/IP LAN using internet > > > > connection sharing. I do not use Zone Alarm or any other personal > > firewall > > > > tool. I still get the error message listed below. > > > > > > > > > I have installed the 4.2.0 version of Cygwin/XFree86 on my Windows XP > > > > laptop > > > > > using a second monitor and when I tried to run the XServer a window of > > > > some > > > > > sort appeared and then disappeared leaving this message: > > > > > $ ./startxwin.bat > > > > > startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows NT/2000 > > > > > XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server > > > > > "127.0.0.1:0.0" > > > > > XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server > > > > > "127.0.0.1:0.0" > > > > > > > > > > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. > > > > > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. > > > > > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. > > > > > > > > > > any ideas what I am doing wrong? > > > > > > > > >
