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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5741 ; Fri, 01 Jan 93 01:54:26 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!gatech!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!uw-beaver!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (& Murphey) Subject: Re: Xfree86 Font directory problem? In-Reply-To: DS1437@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu's message of 29 Dec 1992 20:15:53 -0600 Message-ID: <RICH.92Dec30004535@superego.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <9212300215.AA00524@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:45:35 GMT Lines: 21 >>>>> In article <9212300215.AA00524@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu>, DS1437@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu writes: D> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu D> I am having problems getting Xfree86 running, it seems to initiaize D> the screen fine , but then switches back to text, and hangs the console D> port (still can telnet in). I found out that there is an error that D> the server is reporting but never showing, I can only get this error on D> a system that is telneted in, it is: D> failed to set default font path '/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386 D> /lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/' D> Fatal server error: D> could not open default font 'fixed' The XFree86 1.1 server checks the font path more thoroughly if you set it in your Xconfig than if you use the default. Try setting it: FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" and see if that helps. We are working on improving this for the next release. Rich