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From: gt@prosun.first.gmd.de (Gerd Truschinski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: XFree86 - missing fixed font
Message-ID: <2692@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>
Date: 26 Nov 92 12:33:06 GMT
References: <1992Nov26.030153.2877@decuac.dec.com> <RICH.92Nov26003920@omicron.Rice.edu>
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In article <RICH.92Nov26003920@omicron.Rice.edu>, rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) writes:
|> In article <1992Nov26.030153.2877@decuac.dec.com> darryl@vfofu1.dco.dec.com (Darryl Wagoner) writes:
|> Greetings,
|>
|>
|> I have installed XFree86 and it complains about not being about
|> to could not open font 'fixed'. The only thing I can think of is
|> the XFree directory is remotely mounted, but fully accessable even
|> by root.
|>
|> I don't have any problem with X386 1.2E 1.0.1 except is very slow.
|>
|> Here is the message that comes off of the server:
|>
|> XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System
|> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
|> Configured drivers:
|> VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
|> et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
|> VGA256: et4000 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 16)
|> VGA256: clocks: 25 28 38 46 41 33 51 66 13 15 19 23 21 17 26 0
|> VGA256: SpeedUp mode selected (Flags=0x3f)
|> failed to set default font path '/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X
|> 11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/'
|>
|> This means that one of directories either doesn't exist or is missing
|> a fonts.dir file.
|>
|> Fatal server error:
|> could not open default font 'fixed'
|>
|> this could mean that /usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc doesn't exist. Rich
|>
not perfectly right^^^^^
The 'Speedo'-font is missing or not at the right place (?) in XFree86.
So, delete the 'Speedo'-entry and the rest will work fine.
( Three xterms on 640x480 monochrom monitor. That's what I need. :-) Thank you!!!
BTW installation time under 30 minutes)
/gT/
|>
|> -darryl
|> darryl@sai.com