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From: pozar@kumr.lns.com (Tim Pozar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] XFree86 Questions: Help!
Message-ID: <1993Jan12.162757.13556@kumr.lns.com>
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:27:57 GMT
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Organization: Late Night Software (San Francisco)
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david@maxwell.ucsc.edu (David Darknell) writes:
>3. I now have the message, when I invoke xinit:
> ...
> VGA256: SpeedUp mode selected (Flags=0x3f)
>
> Fatal Server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> XIO: fatal IO error 32 (...
>
> I have two font directories, 75dpi, and misc which were in the
> orig distribution. Neither has any font named, 'default'. What
> am I missing here?
I had the same problem. Actually X is looking for a font named
"Fixed". "Fixed" is aliased in the misc directory as 6x13, in the
fonts.alias file.
Why this error seems to crop up, seems to be that X is trying to set the
path to "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" in the font path, when Speedo
doen't exist. When I took this path out and kept the
"...fonts/misc/,...fonts/75dpi/" it ran.
Tim
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