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- From: wpwood@queball.austin.ibm.com (Bill Woodward)
- Subject: Re: Problems getting X to run
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- In-Reply-To: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU's message of Mon, 21 Dec 1992 01:07:38 GMT
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 08:24:49 GMT
- Reply-To: billw@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com (Bill Woodward)
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- In article <1992Dec21.010738.27603@ucc.su.OZ.AU> dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) writes:
-
- > >wpwood@queball.austin.ibm.com (Bill Woodward) writes:
- > >> I have been trying for about a week to get X to run on my ET-4000 based
- > >>graphics card. I am getting the error message :
- > >>Fatal server error:
- > >>could not open default font 'fixed'
- > >
- > >I got exactly the same message until I _removed_ the Type1 directory line
- > >from my Xconfig file. I am _very_ new to linux/X, so I don't know why I
- > >works, but it solved my problem.
-
- > The server will fail to start up unless each of the directories in
- > the FontPath exists and contains a file called fonts.dir. In the next
- > release we plan to have the server validate the FontPath specified in
- > Xconfig during startup and provide better error messages.
-
- > David
-
- Thanks to everyone who responded to my original message. I was able to
- get X running by doing the following :
-
- 1) I created a directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts/all
- 2) I copied the fonts from 75dpi and misc into that directory
- 3) Cat'ed the two fonts.alias files together
- 4) Ran 'mkfontdir /usr/lib/X11/fonts/all'
- 5) Placed 'FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/all"' to my Xconfig
-
- and everything worked fine. I assume that there was a problem in my
- FontPath line of my Xconfig, but this is the only combination of steps
- that seemed to work.
- Once again, thanks to all who helped.
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