On Sat, 29 May 1999, Mike James wrote:
> Hi, everyone-- > > On 5/29/99 at 4:21 PM -0500, in response to my original problem statement-- > > > > X worked great on my PB3400 until yesterday morning (5/28/99 ~9:00 > > > AM CDT US). That's when I did an "apt-get upgrade" while in > > > WindowMaker. I didn't > > > ... > > > (--) FBDev: Using cfb16 driver > > > > > > Fatal server error: > > > could not open default font 'fixed' > > --Robert Ramiega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think that it's mkfontdir problem (xbase-clients package). It should > > create files fonts.alias in fonts directory and for some uknown to me > > reason it doesn't... > > > > Quick fix is to create /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias file > > with : > > fixed \ > > -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 inside. > > I had inadvertently already implemented Robert's fix--this line is already > the top entry in my misc/fonts.alias file, but my problem remains. startx > gets as far as the X in the center of the screen, and then the server dies. > > I'm not completely sure my XFConfig is right. I got it working before by > changing values in it until X started working. You see my problem: I wasn't > even sure why X was working before, so I'm really not sure why it isn't now > <g>. > > > Mike You actually had an XFConfig? I ended up having to copy the one out of the examples directory. It's still not quite right (can't get 2nd and 3rd mouse button mappings working at all) but I can at least get an XFree started. ahh, growing pains, ain't they wonderful? :) -Jeremiah Merkl
