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RE: Problems getting xfree up and running was: Re: question
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at ssiddiqi dot com>
- Cc: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 07:00:32 -0500
- Subject: RE: Problems getting xfree up and running was: Re: question
- Reply-to: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
> Well this mail came there so you managed to do it :-) Lets
> get started!
>
> Gentlemen, this fellow of ours is having a problem, he have
> downloaded xfree, installed it, I think all by the manual..
> (I assisted him a little and can fill out with some of my thoughts)
>
> When he runs startxwin.bat/sh the X-window pops up, but then
> closes. Reading the /tmp/Xlog.txt (or what the file is
> called) the last thing printed there was that it couldn't
> find font fixed, when doublechecking he seemed to have the
> font 6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
Try installing fonts manually... by using gunzip and tar xvf
This problem a few users reported a few times.
Is Cygwin disk mounted in binary or Text mode? Do a mount command and
make sure it is in binary mode.
>
> (dug up the fontfilename from my fonts.alias and fonts.dir)
>
> (Payam, send the logfile to the list)
>
> He has two network cards, could it be something there messing up??
I doubt two network cards should report fixed font problem.
Suhaib
>
> /Andy
>
> --
> The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty!
>