From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29168 invoked by alias); 30 Dec 2003 14:09:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 29161 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2003 14:09:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sys27.mail.msu.edu) (35.9.75.127) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 30 Dec 2003 14:09:26 -0000 Received: from [207.179.68.222] (helo=msu.edu) by sys27.mail.msu.edu with asmtp (Exim 4.24 #37) (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) id 1AbKYo-00063l-94 for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 09:09:26 -0500 Message-ID: <3FF18715.2020808@msu.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:52:00 -0000 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: xserv 4.3.0-29 Alt Gr Problem is gone References: <4F698AE6FB425D4A8879766D19E1F929055E1A@win2000.sup-logistik.de> In-Reply-To: <4F698AE6FB425D4A8879766D19E1F929055E1A@win2000.sup-logistik.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus: None found by Clam AV X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00411.txt.bz2 List-Id: Christoph, Thanks for the confirmation. I was really hoping that I fixed that problem for good :) Harold Christoph Leser wrote: > Harold, > > thanks for your immediate help. I did as you suggested and it worked out fine for me: > > XWin 4.3.0-29 is now running AND there is no problem with Alt-Gr anymore. > > Thanks to you and all the people providing the great cygwin stuff > > Happy New Year > > Christoph > > >>Run 'mount' in a Cygwin bash shell. You should see something that includes a > line like the following: > > >>C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmode) > > > >>If you see "type system" in that line, then run the following in your Cygwin > bash shell: > > >>umount /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts > > >>Else, run the following > > >>umount -u /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts > > > >>The problem is that your mount-point for your fonts directory points to a dead or invalid directory and needs to be removed. > > >>You know need to re-run Cygwin's setup.exe and make sure that the XFree86-fenc and XFree86-fnts packages are installed or re-installed. > > >>Harold > > > Christoph Leser wrote: > > > >>>thanks for pointing me to /tmp/XWin.log > > >>>This shows, that the font directory is not properly installed. > > >>>When I try to reinstall, the installer hangs when trying to create the sub >> drirectories. ( As a matter of fact I cannot create /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts >> in bash,, gives 'mkdir: cannot create directory 'fonts': No such file or >>directory' ) > > >>>I have no idea what has happened, maybe something wrong with xp? > > >>>Thanks > > >>>Christoph > > > >