I seem to remember that Nick Petreley at LinuxWorld ran into this problem. I
think it turned out that FontTastic listens on a different port. You may want
to go to http://www.linuxworld.com and check out back issues within the last
two months.
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On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote:
> On Sun, 14 May 2000, Stephen Hassard wrote:
>
> > > Use both XFS and FontTastic. They can both run simultaneously. X needs
> > > XFS, whereas FontTastic is for WP only.
> >
> > I figured that out. The reason I disabled XFS was that WP2000 never did
> > start when both were enabled. I tried playing with the FontTastic font
> > installer, but it kept mentioning that it could not initialize itself
> > because it was not installed as the font handler, even though it was
> > installed and running fine ..
>
> I had a similar problem on a machine I installed for a client that wasn't
> going to be networked, so I disabled networking completely (which of
> course broke fonttastic). Do you have the loopback interface enabled
> (ie. lo)? If not, enable it (ie. do a /etc/rc.d/init.d/network
> start). I'd imagine that this is not your problem, however. That was the
> only time fonttastic wouldn't work for me. One I fixed that, it and XFS
> ran together just fine and so did WP2000.
>
> > > I'm using it on 7.0 with XF86 3.3.6 and it works. I imagine you just need
> > > to start XFS and have both running and you should be fine.
> >
> > maybe it's a problem with XF86 4? I wouldn't imagine why tho ..
>
> I don't know. I've only ever tried it with 7.0. I haven't tried
> installing WP2000 with 7.1.
>
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