Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'
Suhaib Siddiqi
ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Tue Jul 10 13:44:00 GMT 2001
Try running mkfontdir from misc fonts directory
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Linden [ mailto:michael.linden@central.sun.com ]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 4:39 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> Hello,
> I am also receiving this error after installing XFree.
> This is directly after a complete CYGWIN install, then download the
> X
> .tgz files and following the
> instructions in the User's Guide by Harold L. Hunt,II.
> I double checked my path to insure that the correct extract is being
> used (yes) and that all md5 sums matched (yes). I then tried to
> extract
> the fonts manually (no errors) but still receive the error. This is
> on
> a win98 laptop.
> Any help/guidance/fixes is appreciated.
>
> Mike
>
> mlinden@LAPTOP /usr/X11R6/bin
> $ ./XWin.exe -screen 0 1024x768x16
> ddxProcessArgument () - screen - argc: 4 i: 1
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows 95/98/Me
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 00000017
> winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Using Windows display depth of 16
> bits
> per pix
> el
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 1018 height
> 714
> winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - lPitch: 2036
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f BPRGB
> 6 d
> 16
> winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
>
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
>
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