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#! rnews 2425 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!torn!news.hcl.com!usenet From: "Rudy Amid" <rudy@hcl.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Xfree86 3.12E and FreeBSD X server problem(s) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 20:06:39 -0400 Organization: Hummingbird Communications Ltd. Lines: 45 Message-ID: <01bb5660.b2b0c900$a563e7c6@rudy.hcl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rudy.hcl.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1085 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20962 comp.windows.x.i386unix:20206 Hi, I just downloaded XFree86 3.12D full distribution and the update to 3.12E tar files, unpacked them and did a symlink from /usr/X11R6 to the distributions. These are precompiled binaries for FreeBSD 2.1 taken from ftp.xfree86.org. I ran the Xf86config to conform to my machine with PCI Diamond Stealth 64 w/2mb (Trio64 chipset), Logitech Mouse, and Acer 15" monitor. After configuration, I ran startx and this is what I found: ... (--) S3: Using 8 planes of 1216x613 at (0,1025) aligned 8 as font cache PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M Fatal Server error: could not open default font 'fixed' X connection to :0.0 broken (excplicit kill or erver shutdown). Upon inspection of the X11R6.1 source code, I noticed that PEX fonts extensions Roman_M is hardcoded and I assumed it's always the default if other fonts are not specified in some .Xresources config file. I checked the fonts directory: bash# pwd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts bash# ls 100dpi Speedo Type1 cyrillic misc No luck. I'm wondering if there's another problem that I overlooked? Can anyone help me suggest what I should do next to fix this? My last resort is to obtain the Xfree86 and X11R6.1 source, and recompile them myself, but that's really very time consuming. Thanks in advance! -- Rudy Amid (rudy@hcl.com) #include <std.disclaimer> Systems Administrator "We're IT!" -MIS Dept. Hummingbird Communications, Ltd. [URL] http://www.hcl.com 1 Sparks Ave. Toronto, Canada. M2H 2W1. 416-496-2200 You can obtain my public PGP key fingerprint from http://www.warped.com/~radix