RE: xfs under Win98

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Well, I need to build a debug version and test myself what is going on?
This will take time.
Unless someone else has any suggestions?


Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fabio Somenzi [mailto:Fabio@Colorado.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 12:24 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: xfs under Win98
> 
> Has anyone managed to get xfs to work under Windows 98?
> 
> I can start xfs in various ways.  If I use the default settings,
> netstat -a confirms that there is a LISTENING connection of port 7100.
> 
> If I put "no-listen = tcp" in my configuration file, xfs complies, and
> can be reached by specifying unix/:7100.  I can also change the port
> number.  If I make a syntax error in the configuration file, xfs
> refuses to run, which suggests that the configuration file is parsed
> successfully.
> 
> However, any attemp to connect to xfx cause it to crash:
> 
>   xset +fp unix/:7100
>   fslsfonts -server unix/:7100
>   xfsinfo -server unix/:7100
> 
> all cause xfs to "dump core."  For instance, with "no-listen = tcp":
> 
> home % xfs -config ./XfsConfig &
> [1] 472467
> home % _FontTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.font-unix should be set to root
> xfs notice: listening on port 7100
> home % xfsinfo -server unix/:7100
> FSIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on font server
> "(null)"
>       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> [1]+  Segmentation fault      (core dumped) xfs -config ./XfsConfig
> 
> 
> Background:
> 
> I'm trying to get scaled fonts to work.  It appears that XWin by
> itself does not support font scaling.  Rather, it relies on xfs for
> that.
> 
> For instance, "xfontsel -scaled" fails to display font sizes for which
> the font file is not available.
> 
> So, I'm trying to get xfs to work, but so far the objective has
> remained beyond my grasp.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Fabio