can't start X server

[Winston Gutkowski]

Hi, I sent this to you yesterday, but I think I've found the problem.
Sending you the solution in case it helps.

The reason for the message below appears to be because I originally set up
cygwin to use DOS-type text files. I suspect this causes tar to extract the
<font>.dir files with DOS-style line-endings which can't be read by xwin.
The problem went away when I re-installed cywin to use UNIX-style lines. I
got the information from an answer to an e-mail contained in the attached
URL (see below).

Cheers

Winston


-----Original Message-----
From: Winston Gutkowski [ mailto:winston.gutkowski@e-ztext.com ]
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 7:24 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@xfree86.cygwin.com
Subject: can't start X server


Hi,

I recently downloaded XFree86 4.1 for Cygwin, and now can't start my
X-Server. The startxwin.bat just flashes up a couple of DOS windows and
disappears and, after editing the startxwin.sh script, I worked out that the

+ XWin -screen 0 1024x768x32

command produces the message

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

Can anybody give me some idea what the matter is?

Winston
winston.gutkowski@e-ztext.com
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