Re: Problems starting X,v.4.0.3 -- still

[Lukas Ruf <ruf@tik.ee.ethz.ch>]

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> 
> 
> Lukas Ruf wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 16 May 2001, Charl P. Botha wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Uncomment "Option NoHal" on your device clause.  Alternatively, get the
> >>mga_hal binary only module from matrox.com.  This will solve the mga_hal
> >>warning at the very least...
> > 
> > I did this, now there comes no error message anymore -- but the problem
> > still exists: the server fails while starting with the error message:
> >     Fatal server error:
> >     could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> 
> What about my suggestions?
> 
I followed! 

I checked for the fonts.dir and fonts.alias.  I run mkfontsdir on all
directories and I even have xfs running all the time:

komsys-pc-lr:~!52> ps ax | grep xfs
  983 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/X11/xfs -daemon
  
> You either need to get xfs going or add FontPath entries to your XF86Config.
> 
So, what' next ?

--lpr