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From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters)
Subject: Re: Where are the fixed fonts for X? (Last erro
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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 20:28:16 GMT
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In article 17834@news.ysu.edu, ae007@yfn.ysu.edu (Daniel Newcombe) writes:
>
>Well, hopefully this will be the last error getting X up.
>The server won't load because it says that it can't find
>the default font fixed.
>Where is this?  Or is there something I should change so
>it looks somewhere else?
>BTW, my FontPath points to both the 75dpi and the misc 
>directories.

It sounds as though the font path is not being set (correctly).  This might
happen if your font path contains a non-existent directory or if you made a
type in one of the directory names.

BTW: there is only one fixed font.  It is usually an alias for one of the
fonts in lib/X11/fonts/misc.

	Chris Flatters
	cflatter@nrao.edu