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- From: tmurr@hw21.ma30.bull.com (Tom Murray)
- Subject: Help :"could not open default font 'fixed'" in X
- Organization: Bull HN Informations Systems Inc.
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:54:42 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.175442.28328@mips2.ma30.bull.com>
- Keywords: X, default font, fonts
- Sender: news@mips2.ma30.bull.com (Usenet News Manager)
- Lines: 89
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- I am new to Liux and have only users level knowledge of UNIX.
- About two weeks ago I ftp'ed the SLS package from MIT (.98pl5)
- and installed it. My system is a 386, 8 meg of memory, ESDI hard drive
- with a 65 meg linux partition and a 7 meg swap partition, and a
- (sorry) TRIDENT 8900 chipset on the no-name vga controller with
- 1 meg of video ram. Linux came up fine, but I couldn't get X up.
- After reading numerous sugestions, and trying dozens of my
- own concoctions of the magic Xconfig ( with ZERO success, all attempts
- resulted in a grey screen, with small black figures across it, for n
- seconds followed by all black, and I had to reboot to get any screen
- at all). I heard about a Trident fix in Xfree86.2.1. so I got it,
- uncompressed it ,Untarred it. then ran startx as user1.
- permission denied.
- so I ran XINIT, and got the following
- (note: THE screen did NOT go blank !!! SUCCESS , sort of)
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- no SIOCGIFCONF
- XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System
- (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
- Configured drivers:
- VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
- et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
- Trident chipset version: 0x13
- VGA256: tvga8900 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 4)
- VGA256: clocks: 25 28 36 45
- VGA256: SpeedUp code selection modified because chipset != et4000
- VGA256: SpeedUp mode selected (Flags=0x30)
-
- Fatal server error:
- could not open default font 'fixed'
-
- giving up.
- xinit: Interrupted system call (errno 4): unable to connect to X server
- xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
-
-
- so I followed the fonts path in the Xconfig and found it deadend-ed at
- /X11/fonts/misc .. misc was empty Hmmm.
-
- well; back to MIT, same directory, 3 diskettes
- cat a b c | uncompress | tar -xf -
-
- now misc isn't empty it has all kinds of .Z's in it . Great
-
- xinit
- boom
- no SIOCGIFCONF
- XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System
- (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
- Configured drivers:
- VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
- et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
- Trident chipset version: 0x13
- VGA256: tvga8900 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 4)
- VGA256: clocks: 25 28 36 45
- VGA256: SpeedUp code selection modified because chipset != et4000
- VGA256: SpeedUp mode selected (Flags=0x30)
-
- Fatal server error:
- could not open default font 'fixed'
-
- giving up.
- xinit: Interrupted system call (errno 4): unable to connect to X server
- xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
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-
- Same thing. so I look around in misc/
- no file called "fixed",
- there is a file called fonts.alias . the first line of whch says
-
- fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-dadadada ## ## ## ## iso something
-
- none of the words match any filename in this directory . ??
-
- I am 53 feet deep and totally lost.
-
- anybody got a clue what I have done wrong, or where to go from Here?
-
-
- Tom Murray
- t.murray@ma30.bull.com
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