On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 07:19:37PM -0400, Warren Postma wrote: >The FAQ listing for section 6.5. Fatal server error: could not open default >font 'fixed' >does not work. For one thing, the suggested remedy does NOT change the >mounting of the /usr directory. > >A more direct fix would be to update the Xinstall.sh to do the following: > >1. Check mount output for either / or /usr mounted as textmode. > >2. Unmount the offending partition: > umount /usr > umount / >3. Remount root or usr : > mount --binary c:/cygwin / > mount --binary c:/cygwin/usr /usr
If it is just a problem with the font directory then mounting just the font directory would be less intrusive. Less intrusive still might be to build xfs/XFree86 with /usr/lib/binmode.o . This will force all reads to be in binmode automatically. cgf
