From: wpwood@queball.austin.ibm.com (Bill Woodward) Subject: Re: Problems getting X to run Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 08:24:49 GMT
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.