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- From: DS1437@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: RE: Font Problems with Xfree86
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 16:01:37 -0600
- Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
- Lines: 67
- Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
- Message-ID: <9212302201.AA01419@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu>
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- R>From: rich@Rice.edu (& Murphey)
- R>Subject: Re: Xfree86 Font directory problem?
- R>>>>>> In article <9212300215.AA00524@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu>, DS1437@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu writes:
- R>D> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu
- R>
- R>D> I am having problems getting Xfree86 running, it seems to initiaize
- R>D> the screen fine , but then switches back to text, and hangs the console
- R>D> port (still can telnet in). I found out that there is an error that
- R>D> the server is reporting but never showing, I can only get this error on
- R>D> a system that is telneted in, it is:
- R>
- R>D> failed to set default font path '/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386
- R>D> /lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/'
- R>D> Fatal server error:
- R>D> could not open default font 'fixed'
- R>
- R>The XFree86 1.1 server checks the font path more thoroughly if you
- R>set it in your Xconfig than if you use the default. Try setting it:
- R>
- R>FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
- R>
- R>and see if that helps. We are working on improving this for the next
- R>release. Rich
-
- I think thats where the server was getting the name for the font
- directories. Sorry I was going to include my Xconfig file in the message
- too, but I forgot. Here it is --
-
- #########################################################################
- RGBPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/rgb"
- FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
- Keyboard
- AutoRepeat 500 5
- Xleds 1 2 3
- ServerNumLock
- DontZap
- microsoft "/dev/com1"
- BaudRate 9600
- SampleRate 150
- Emulate3Buttons
- vga256
- Virtual 640 480
- ViewPort 0 0
- Modes "640x480"
-
- ModeDB
- ###############################################################################
- # Monitor: Gateway 2000 Crystal Scan NI (Mag Computronics 1448)
- # Contributor: Thomas Naughton [naughton@chinet.chi.il.us]
- # Last Edit Date: 10/17/91
- #
- # name clock horizontal timing vertical timing flags
- "640x480" 25 640 672 768 800 480 490 492 525
- "800x600" 50 800 864 970 1056 600 608 615 633
- "1152x900i" 68 1152 1172 1288 1368 900 909 933 937 Interlace
- # Refresh rate = 57.44Hz ; Horizontal Frequency = 47.79KHz
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