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- From: wpwood@queball.austin.ibm.com (Bill Woodward)
- Subject: Problems getting X to run
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:56:23 GMT
- Reply-To: wpwood@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com (Bill Woodward)
- Organization: IBM Austin
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- OK,
- 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 know X pretty well on RS/6000s, so I tried the following things, none
- of which seems to work :
-
- 1) Added 'FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"' to my Xconfig file
- 2) Remade the 'fonts.dir' file with 'mkfontdir /usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc'
- 3) Checked the fonts.alias file to make sure it had a 'fixed' entry in it
- 4) Ran X by itself with 'X -df(?) Rom11' or some other font I knew existed,
- but no dice
-
- I would appreciate any suggestions. No RTFM comments, because I have already
- looked through the FAQ and anything else I can find, but I couldn't find an
- answer anywhere. It's seems that this really should be in the FAQ.
-
- A couple of other questions:
-
- 1) After I get the default font problem licked, I am still having trouble
- getting garbage on the screen. When I run startx, the screen goes blank,
- and the random light and dark lines appear. Is this normal if the server
- won't start?
-
- 2) I heard that someone was working on a compressed filesystem. When they
- say compressed, are we discussing something like Stacker?
-
- Thanks,
- Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-
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