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Hello, Tue, 07 Mar 2000, ÷Ù ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌÉ:
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. Yeah, it's all over Deja, but could not find a solution.
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 I even tried uncommenting every Type 1 path, leaving only the path FontPath "tcp/localhost:7101"
(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 Here is what I got:
root@host-name:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts > strings `which xfs` | grep config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config fatal: couldn't read config file couldn't read config file Re-reading config file couldn't parse config file usage: %s [-config config_file] [-port tcp_port] -config CONFIG: error reading configuration file "%s" CONFIG: can't open configuration file "%s" CONFIG: insufficient memory to load configuration file "%s" What does this mean? Thanks George -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/