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- From: fmn@nevada.edu (FRANK NEEDHAM)
- Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
- Subject: X error message
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.003047.22844@sm.sony.co.jp>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 00:30:47 GMT
- Sender: onoe@sm.sony.co.jp (Atsushi Onoe)
- Distribution: fj
- Organization: University of Nevada System Computing Services
- Lines: 32
- Approved: michael@sm.sony.co.jp
-
- Date: 21 Dec 92 18:11:32 GMT
- Message-Id: <1992Dec21.181132.745@nevada.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.i386unix
- Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu
-
- After editing the mouse line in Xconfig the following error came up after X
- died, :-(.
- no SIOCGIFCONF
- XFree86 Version 1.0Ya / X Window System
- (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
- Configured drivers:
- VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
- et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
- VGA256: et4000 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 16)
- VGA256: clocks: 25 28 33 36 40 45 32 38 50 57 65 72 80 90 63 75
- VGA256: SpeedUp code selection modified because virtualX != 1024
- VGA256: SpeedUp mode selected (Flags=0xf)
-
- Fatal server error:
- could not open default font 'fixed'
-
- giving up.
- xinit: Invalid argument (errno 22): unable to connect to X server
- xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
-
- Since I don't really understand X yet and don't know what's supposed to happen
- here, I was hoping someone could tell what to look at next.
- The FontPath reads "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi".
- What should I do at this point?
-
- thanks,
- -frank
-