Just in case you specified the fonts in your file section (it should not be necessary there are decent defaults) you SHOULD have a fixed font as the first one in the list (misc would do) Lionel --- Curry Taylor <arceyemm@InsightBB.com> wrote: > > I know this might be a dead horse by now, but I've struggled with > this for a while: > > I'm (trying to) run XFree86 4.2.0 on a FreeBSD 4.5 box with an > Intel chip. The error I get when I run X (via X, XFree86, or startx) is: > > Fatal server errror: > could not open default font 'fixed' > > This is the ONLY error that I receive. (Before it is the config > file name and after it is just the bug report message.) I've tried many > different solutions, such as ones suggesting that I run mkfontdir on each > font directory. (The fonts.dir files were there, and reasonable, already > anyway.) I've tried removing fonts.alias files as one recommendation said. > > I've also recompiled X overnight a couple of times, and it > compiles and installs perfectly, fonts and all. I've also run 'XFree86 > -configure' and 'XFree86 -xf86config XF86Config.new', with both of those > behaving well. I've also run xf86config and it seemed to work well. I know > my hardware specs, so I doubt it is a problem with not specifying a device > or hardware option properly. > > Let me know what might be the problem (i.e. whatever is left that > I have not tried). > > Curry > arceyemm@insightbb.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://http://taxes.yahoo.com/
