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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: XFree86 - missing fixed font
In-Reply-To: darryl@vfofu1.dco.dec.com's message of Thu, 26 Nov 1992 03:01:53 GMT
Message-ID: <RICH.92Nov26003920@omicron.Rice.edu>
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Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
	University
References: <1992Nov26.030153.2877@decuac.dec.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1992 06:39:20 GMT
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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


   -darryl
   darryl@sai.com