Xfree 86/Cygwin & NT

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Jorge Goncalvez wrote:

> Hi, thank you for your help Pavel and Suhaib but my Cygwin/Xfree86 still doesn't 
> work.
> 
> I use Xfree 4.03 under Winnt.Actually I successfully installed Cygwin/free86 in 
> my Windows 98 SE and I decided to port it to a NT machine.
> I copied c:\Cygwin and I ran Xfree with the command:
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\XWin.exe -screen 0 800x600x16
> and I have the following
> 
> Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> 
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000000b
> winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 794 height 546
> winInitVisualsShadowDD () - Masks: 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f bpRGB: 6
> winInitVisualsShadowDD () - Returning
> PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file  Roman_M
> error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, removing from l
> ist!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing from
>  list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from
> list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from li
> st!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, removing from
> list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, removing from
>  list!
> 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> 
> 
> In fact I don't understand why it works fine in 98 SE and not in NT or 2000.
> I only took the same files in both.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
you still have to setup your mount points.

cd c:\cygwin\bin
mount -b c:\cygwin /bin 
mount -b c:\cygwin\bin /usr/bin
mount -b c:\cygwin\lib /usr/lib

if this doesn't work, please install cygwin using the setup utility.

bye
	ago
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