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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix 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.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!qiclab.scn.rain.com!morton!joe From: joe@morton.rain.com (Joe Moss) Subject: Re: Xfree86 3.12E and FreeBSD X server problem(s) Message-ID: <DsuMrF.MCq@morton.rain.com> Organization: Morton & Associates X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 CURRENT #20 References: <01bb5660.b2b0c900$a563e7c6@rudy.hcl.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 18:45:15 GMT Lines: 28 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:21054 comp.windows.x.i386unix:20222 "Rudy Amid" <rudy@hcl.com> writes: >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 This is not a problem unless you actually want to use the PEX extension. >Fatal Server error: >could not open default font 'fixed' This, however, is. Unfortunately, I can't tell what the problem is for sure, because you only included these last few lines. What do the earlier lines of server startup output say regarding the font path? -- set Email "joe@morton.rain.com (Joe Moss)";set URL http://psg.com/~joem/ ====================================================================== "Folk, if you are not checking the Frequently Asked Questions documents before you ask questions, you are taking longer to resolve problems, and annoying more folk, than necessary." -- Larry W. Virden