Re: XFree86 just broke on PB3400 (Fri 5/28/99 AM (US))

[Mike James <mwjames@magibox.net>]

Hi, everyone--

On 5/29/99 at 4:21 PM -0500, in response to my original problem statement--

> > X worked great on my PB3400 until yesterday morning (5/28/99 ~9:00
> > AM CDT US). That's when I did an "apt-get upgrade" while in
> > WindowMaker. I didn't
> > ...
> > (--) FBDev: Using cfb16 driver
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default font 'fixed'

--Robert Ramiega <robert@plukwa.pdi.net> wrote:

> I think that it's mkfontdir problem (xbase-clients package). It should
> create files fonts.alias in fonts directory and for some uknown to me
> reason it doesn't...
>
> Quick fix is to create /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias file
> with :
> fixed \
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 inside.

I had inadvertently already implemented Robert's fix--this line is already
the top entry in my misc/fonts.alias file, but my problem remains. startx
gets as far as the X in the center of the screen, and then the server dies.

I'm not completely sure my XFConfig is right. I got it working before by
changing values in it until X started working. You see my problem: I wasn't
even sure why X was working before, so I'm really not sure why it isn't now
<g>.


Mike



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Mike James <mwjames@magibox.net>
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