startx fails with: could not open default font 'fixed'

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

Fonts problem.  Try installing fonts by manually ungziping and untaring.  I
belive Harold has discussed this problem in Users Guide or his FAQ.  This
also had been answered several times on the mailing list.  A search on
mailing list would also have given you answers.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karr, David [ mailto:david.karr@cacheflow.com ] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 5:14 PM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com'
> Subject: startx fails with: could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> 
> When I try to run "startx", I get the following output, which 
> ends with the error about the "fixed" font.  What could I be 
> doing wrong?
> 
> -----------------------------
> ddxProcessArgument ()
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to 
> root winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000 
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed 
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD 
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed 
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 
> 0000001f winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking 
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Using Windows display depth 
> of 16 bits per pixel winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - 
> WindowClient w 1274 h 970 r 1274 l 0 b 970 t 0 
> winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - lPitch: 2548 
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 
> 0000001f BPRGB 6 d 16 winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to 
> fbCreateDefColormap ()
> 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> giving up.
> xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> -----------------------------
>