Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:58:11 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cyg xfree86 webpage suggestion Message-ID: <20020116175811.GI25452@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:46:13AM -0600, David Kohn wrote: >Hi Cygwin and Christopher Faylor, There is no reason to personally address email to a mailing list. >Just a quick suggestion, from someone who just went through >downloading/installing Cygwin/Xfree86: > >It might cut down on confusion,etc, if on the Cygwin/Xfree86 page where it >mentions downloads, you warn people in advance of problems they may >encounter. Hmm. You apparently found the XFree86 web page but you are sending email to the wrong mailing list. I have very little to do cygwin-xfree. It is maintained by other people. I've redirected this message to the correct list. cgf >Before they try installing Cyg/XFree86, they should first do the following >w/ their CygWin: > - update their cygwin to something reasonably current > - subsequently grab the older version of ncurses (to avoid that >cygncurses5.dll problem when launching X) > - in the cygwin installer, make sure they select "Unix" linefeeds instead >of "DOS" (to avoid that "font not found" problem) > >I found these links helpful in tracking down help and instructions, FWIW: > >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00124.html >http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-error-font-eof > >Other than that, the installation was straightforward and the install >instructions in the User Guide worked great! > >Thanks for your excellent work and generosity in making these packages >available to the public! >Dave Kohn -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/