Re: XDM and X not beggining
- To: Cristian Prevedello <plasma@chiara.dei.unipd.it>
- Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: XDM and X not beggining
- From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <baptista@cos.ufrj.br>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 09:23:40 -0300
- Message-id: <19990601092339.A13559@jaca.@>
- In-reply-to: <199906010833.KAA07886@chiara.dei.unipd.it>; from Cristian Prevedello on ter, jun 01, 1999 at 10:33:31 +0200
- References: <19990531103119.A25901@jaca.@> <199906010833.KAA07886@chiara.dei.unipd.it>
Hi,
the permissions are:
baptista@honolulu: /dev$ ls -l kbd
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 11, 0 Jan 26 10:40 kbd
baptista@honolulu: /dev$ ls -l fb0
crw--w--w- 1 root tty 29, 0 Jan 29 08:54 fb0
baptista@honolulu: /dev$ ls -l sunmouse
crw------- 1 root root 10, 6 Jan 25 10:57 sunmouse
baptista@honolulu: /dev$ ls -l mouse
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jan 25 10:59 mouse -> sunmouse
baptista@honolulu: /dev$
Is they right?
I have the following packages installed:
baptista@honolulu: /dev$ dpkg -l | grep xfont
ii xfonts-100dpi 3.3.3.1-3 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi 3.3.3.1-3 75 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-base 3.3.3.1-3 standard fonts for X
ii xfonts-pex 3.3.3.1-3 fonts for minimal PEX support in X
ii xfonts-scalable 3.3.3.1-3 scalable fonts for X
baptista@honolulu: /dev$ dpkg -l | grep xserver
ii xserver-common 3.3.2.3a-11 files and utilities common to all X servers
ii xserver-xsun 3.3.2.3a-11 X server for 8-bit Sun framebuffers
ii xserver-xsun-mo 3.3.2.3a-11 X server for monochrome Sun framebuffers
ii xserver-xsun24 3.3.2.3a-11 X server for 24-bit Sun framebuffers
baptista@honolulu: /dev$
And have to following xdm.log:
baptista@honolulu: /dev$ tail /var/log/xdm.log
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
xdm error (pid 1358): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1
(using VT number 7)
PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
xdm error (pid 1358): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1
xdm error (pid 1358): Display :0 is being disabled
baptista@honolulu: /dev$
Thank you very much, Paulo Henrique
Quoting Cristian Prevedello (plasma@chiara.dei.unipd.it):
> > Hi all debian sparc users,
> > I upgrade my Sparc 4 to potato and now cant begin X:
> > The error when I try to start xdm is:
> > PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
> > Could not open default font fixed
> > And I have xfonts-base 100dpi, 75dpi installed...
> > What I can do?
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Paulo Henrique
>
> Be sure you have correct permission on /dev/kbd /dev/fb0 /dev/sunmouse
> and the link /dev/mouse pointing to /dev/sunmouse
>
> plasma
>
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