From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) Subject: Re: Problems getting X to run Date: 21 Dec 1992 01:07:38 GMT
In article <fluet.724691733@ee.ualberta.ca> fluet@ee.ualberta.ca (Kevin Blaine Fluet) 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