Re: X11: could not open default font 'fixed'

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 03:52:55PM +0100, Jean-Philippe Gu?rard wrote:
> Le 2001-12-04 16:23:39 +0200, Johann Spies écrivait :
> > I am trying to install X11 on a machine in preparation to show linux to
> > other users.  At the moment I am stuck with the error message in the
> > subject-line on Woody.
> 
> Try running as root :
> 
> cd /usr/lib/X11/fonts
> update-fonts-alias 100dpi 75dpi misc Speedo TrueType Type1
> 
Thanks.  Running this showed that I missed some fonts.  So installed all
the ttf I could find and ran it again.  This time it ended without an
error.  However, trying to run startx still ended in "Fatal server
error: could not open default font 'fixed'" :(

Regards.

Johann
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