need your help to set up the X fonts properly. Following the suggestions in the mailing list and on the web does not bring about a solution.
This seems to be a recurring problem, despite reinstalling Cygwin from scratch on a pretty clean XP box, the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ font directory is not installed. Yes, I have tried to follow the instructions given in http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof. The umount... command gives "No such file or directory". A reinstall of the font packages named in the faq brings neither a CID directory nor a 'fixed' fonts to X. I hope there is a solution to this problem. If you are unable to provide a solution, I hope one of you can zip down the ...../fonts/CID directory and send it to me so that I can use X again. Please let me know if there are things I should do to help you figure out what happened. This seems to be a large problem out there. Best regards, Borge Contents of my fonts directory after a fresh install and following the hints in the faq: ==================== $ ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ total 0 drwxrwx---+ 2 Borge Strand Users 0 Feb 9 10:59 100dpi drwxrwx---+ 2 Borge Strand Users 0 Feb 9 10:50 75dpi drwxrwx---+ 2 Borge Strand Users 0 Feb 9 10:59 TTF drwxrwx---+ 2 Borge Strand Users 0 Feb 9 10:59 Type1 drwxrwx---+ 2 Borge Strand Users 0 Feb 9 11:00 cyrillic drwxrwx---+ 3 Borge Strand Users 0 Feb 9 10:49 encodings drwxrwx---+ 2 Borge Strand Users 0 Feb 9 10:50 misc drwxrwx---+ 2 Borge Strand Users 0 Feb 9 10:49 util ==================== The popup message from X: ==================== A fatal error ahs occured and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.99.901-4 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command-line: X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard <OK> ==================== The X startup message in Cygwin (and content of XWin.log): ==================== Borge [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ startx & [1] 3756 Borge [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.99.901-4 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard (WW) /tmp mounted int textmode _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007 winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1600 height: 1200 depth: 32 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 null screen fn ReparentWindow null screen fn RestackWindow InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000414" (00000414) (--) Using preset keyboard for "Norwegian" (414), type "4" Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "no" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)" The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols > Ignoring extra symbols Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server (--) 16 mouse buttons found Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' ==================== -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
