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- From: kwan@netcom.com (Kwan-Seng Low)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: X386 Installation Woes
- Message-ID: <zxynq5j.kwan@netcom.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 19:05:17 GMT
- References: <g7xnmdp@lynx.unm.edu>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- In article <g7xnmdp@lynx.unm.edu> meissner@triton.unm.edu (John Meissner) writes:
- >After obtaining the X386 release from agate.berkeley.edu (/pub/incoming/X386),
- >I find that I am unable to make it do anything after performing the steps
- >outlined for installation. I have made the appropriate links, installed the
- >kernel which was provided with the distribution, mknod /dev/vga, and
- >everything else I can think of.
- >
- >When I start X, 'startx', the screen clears, I get some strange graphic stuff
- >on the screen in graphics mode, and then the server restores to text mode
- >with the error message 'XIO fatal IO error 32 (Broken Pipe)'. After running
- >xdm and examining the file 'xdm-errors', I see that X is detecting my video
- >board as an ET4000 with 16 clocks (the first few are correct), and then
- >it follows with an error message to the effect 'fatal server error, cannot
- >load default font 'fixed''.
- >
- >Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can try to get this thing up and
- >running? Thank you for your time and effort.
-
- On your Xconfig file, on the line where it says fontpath:.....
- get rid of the 2nd entry where it says /usr/X386/lib/fonts/.. Speedo.
- That path wasn't exist at all. You should be fine now. Tooks me 2 weeks to
- figure that out!
-
- Kwan
-