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RE: Problems getting xfree up and running was: Re: question
- From: payam payami <ppayami at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 00:01:54 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: RE: Problems getting xfree up and running was: Re: question
--- Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi@ssiddiqi.com> wrote:
>
>
> > 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.
i install it manually but problem existed yet,
yes i do mount command and 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!
> >
>
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