Re: Unable to start X Solved!

[Dale Morris <dlm@well.com>]

I have X working now, apparently I missed installing xfonts-base and
xfonts­75dpi. 

On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Dale Morris wrote:

> I just did a fresh reinstall of potato, then upgraded to woody. I
> didn't have a working X configuration, just changed my sources list
> and did dist-upgrade.
> 
> Now when I try to connect to X my screen hangs with a little white
> space at the top and then gives me the error message:
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> I checked the error messages in /var/log/xf86 and it suggested running
> mkfontdir in 3 different directories, which I did. Still didn't work.
> I tried changing the font path in XF86Config-4 as suggested here in
> the list and that didn't help. 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks
> dale
> 
> 
> 
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