RE: startx failure, on fresh install

2006-09-06 Thread Kenneth Nellis
FWIW, my X problems went away when I downgraded to the pre-6.8.99.901-1 versions of xorg-x11-* packages. Given my experience and others' reported problems on this list, I don't consider the 99 version stable. And, I understand that there is no one currently maintaining it. Maybe there was a

Re: Cygwin X fails to start

2006-09-06 Thread Michael A. LaBrot
I, too, experienced the could not open default font 'fixed' problem and the FAQ did not help me either. I was able to run X after changing the Cygwin Default Text File Type from DOS/text to Unix/binary during setup. Consider this a bug report. __ Javier Delgadillo

Re: could not open default font 'fixed'

2006-09-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Andrew MacDonald wrote: Hey, I'm sure you've all see this one posted on here before, but something has to be different because none of the solutions that I have found worked for me. I've checked mount points ensuring directories existed. I've re-installed font packages. I tried re-running