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[abrahams@xxxxxxxxxxx (Paul W. Abrahams)]

>         When I do startx I get the error
> "Fatal server error:  could not open default font 'fixed'".  At the very
> bottom, I list all the files in my directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType
>
> Any ideas?

I've seen that error also.  I believe the Font Howto mentions some command you can use to check
what your fontpath is.  I'd suggest, as an experiment, that you reorder the items in XF86Config
so that the unix one comes last (or at least after the unscaled ones) and then start fiddling.
The likely cause, as I remember, is either a missing directory in the xfs configuration file or a
directory without the fonts.dir or fonts.scale file.  The default location for the xfs
configuration is

    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config

which you can determine for yourself by typing:

    strings `which xfs` | grep config

Paul Abrahams


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