RE: Error with xvfb fonts path

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> > Suhaib
> 
> 1) System target is Windows NT4/2000, what do you mean "mounting"?

mouting as in mount as in Cygwin using mount.exe 


> 2) I can never be sure to have a font server running somewhere...
> 3) Is there a reason for the "-fp" command line option not to work?

No, it should.  But right now I cannot tell you why it does not work.
I can troubleshoot tonight at my home pc.

Suhaib

> 
> Philippe.
> 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Philippe Le Bihan [mailto:Philippe.Le-Bihan@evidian.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 9:44 AM
> > > To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> > > Subject: Error with xvfb fonts path
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >  I have downloaded xfree86-4.0-Xvfb.tar.bz2 along with
> > > everything it takes to work. And indeed, everything works
> > > properly when installed right in [DRIVE:]/usr/X11R6...
> > >
> > > The problem is that I HAVE to install it in another
> > > directory. And then xvfb fails because it does not find
> > > needed fonts, even when I start it with "-fp" command line
> > > option.
> > >
> > > Am I misunderstanding something about this option?
> > > Does anybody knows of a way to do this ? (recompile
> > > with another RootDir is not an option, because
> > > installation directory will vary from one system to
> > > another).
> > >
> > > Any help appreciated.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Philippe LE BIHAN
> > > mailto:Philippe.Le-Bihan@evidian.com
> > > tel:(33-1) 01 30 80 34 11 int. 23-73411
> > > --
> > >
> > > Here is the output I get (Dir1, Dir2, Dir3 are something
> > > like e:/My/Install/Dir/usr/X11R6/lib/... Fonts dirs are
> > > installed in Dir3)
> > >
> > > Command1:  xvfb -co [Dir1]/rgb -sp [Dir2]/SecPol -ac :40
> > >   ...
> > >   PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file  Roman_M
> > >   Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX/,
> > > removing from list!
> > >   Could not init font path element 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,
> > > removing from list!
> > >   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/CID/,
> > > removing from list!
> > >   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/misc/,
> > > removing from list!
> > >
> > >   Fatal server error:
> > >   could not open default font 'fixed'
> > >
> > > Command2: xvfb -co [Dir1]/rgb -sp [Dir2]/SecPol -ac :40 -fp
> > > [Dir3]/PEX/,[Dir3]/100dpi/,[Dir3]/75dpi/,[Dir3]/CID/,[Dir3]/Sp
> > > eedo/,[Dir3]/Type1/,[Dir3]/misc/
> > >   ...
> > >   PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file  Roman_M
> > >   Could not init font path element [Dir3]/PEX/, removing 
> from list!
> > >   Could not init font path element [Dir3]/100dpi/, 
> removing from list!
> > >   Could not init font path element [Dir3]/75dpi/, 
> removing from list!
> > >   Could not init font path element [Dir3]/CID/, removing 
> from list!
> > >   Could not init font path element [Dir3]/Speedo/, 
> removing from list!
> > >   Could not init font path element [Dir3]/Type1/, 
> removing from list!
> > >   Could not init font path element [Dir3]/misc/, removing 
> from list!
> > >
> > >   Fatal server error:
> > >   could not open default font 'fixed'
> > >
> 
> --
> Philippe LE BIHAN
> mailto:Philippe.Le-Bihan@evidian.com
> tel:(33-1) 01 30 80 34 11 int. 23-73411
> --
>