Stooooopid FONT.... Linux Q

[Quaggoth]

I finally got my Prophet 2 MX working well enough that it will start X. Then in the course of tinkering with stuff (As I am prone to do), I hosed it 🙁. I ran Xconfigurator again, set everything back up the way it apparently is supposed to be, but now I get this error -

Could not init Font Path element unix/:7100, removing...

Fatal server Error
Could not open default font 'fixed'

I went to the fonts directory listed in the XF86Config and XF86Config-4 directories, but no 'fixed' font. I looked through the directories in that directory, no 'fixed' font. What is the "c:\>DIR /s fixed.*" command? OR, if this is a completely different problem than just a bad PATH statement, please let me know.

Thanks.

 

[Damaged]

With XFree86 V.4 you should use xf86cfg --text instead of Xconfigurator. Try that once. It will write the config file to whatever directory you're in, then you can edit and copy over as needed. /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 should be the correct file.Could not init

Font Path element unix/:7100, removing

That's xfs. Must not be running I'd guess, or not configured to use port 7100.

You can try locate fixed to see what you can see.

 

[Quaggoth]

Thanks for the reply, but I fixed it. I did what I think is the same as reinstalling my video dirvers and setup myXF86Config file again. Now I need to know what the autoexec.bat equivelent is so I can have X start automatically. Is that buried in linuxconf somewhere? Also, I found out that the puter was not deleting temp files. it filled my swap partition. I had to mannually delete everytthing in my temp directory. That seemed to help too. Thanks though.

 

[Damaged]

Edit your inittab like so:

id:5:initdefault:

 

[Damaged]

Ack! Just a note that my switch is incorrect for text configuration. It should be xf86cfg -textmode. Sorry all. 🙂

 

[SUOrangeman]

What distro? Mandrake likes to use "port" -1 for the font server. I can't remember what RedHat uses (likely, a more standard number).


-SUO