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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!lynx!triton.unm.edu!meissner From: meissner@triton.unm.edu (John Meissner) Subject: X386 Installation Woes Message-ID: <g7xnmdp@lynx.unm.edu> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 00:27:58 GMT Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 16 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.