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- From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.windows.x.i386unix
- Subject: Re: Problems getting X to run
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.010738.27603@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 01:07:38 GMT
- References: <BzEs5z.2owH@austin.ibm.com> <fluet.724691733@ee.ualberta.ca>
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- 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
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