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From: DS1437@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu
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Subject: Xfree86 Font directory problem?
Date: 29 Dec 1992 20:15:53 -0600
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I am having problems getting Xfree86 running, it seems to initiaize
the screen fine , but then switches back to text, and hangs the console
port (still can telnet in). I found out that there is an error that
the server is reporting but never showing, I can only get this error on
a system that is telneted in, it is:
failed to set default font path '/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386
/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
I am trying to install this on two machines, and it does the exact same
thing on both machines. Of course the directory entries are correct and
mkfontdir has been run in each directory. There is an fonts.alias file
in the misc directory that lists 'fixed' as misc-blahh-blahh and that
entry does appear in the fonts.dir as 6x13.psf.Z
Does anyone know what is wrong? why isn't the server able to
set the font directories?
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Name: Donald L. Schleede Snail-Mail:
Call: KB2LZF (kb2lzf@wb2wxq.ny.na.usa) Dept. Earth Sciences
E-mail Addresses: SUNY Brockport
ds1437@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu Brockport, NY 14420
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