On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, you wrote:
> Scott Sweeney wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, you wrote:
> > > Please help!!
> > >
> > > I've been running Venus just fine..until this morning when I rebooted
> > > the system. When it tries to load X (KDM), it doesn't - it flickers
> > > between the SVGA server and the text indefinitely. ctrl-alt-del'ing
> > > shows the error:
> > >
> > > fontdir: .%1 not found (or something similar)
> > > font 'fixed' not found (again, something similar)
> > >
> > > Now...is there some way to boot into the system without defaulting to
> > > runlevel 5, without modifying the initab(?) file? (the boot disk I made
> > > during setup won't work!!!)
> > >
> > > I'm assuming that once I do this, I should be able to modify the init
> > > files for KDM..Or am I in a hopeless situation - my only option
> > > reloading Linux once again.....arg..
> > >
> > > I thought linux was supposed to be more stable than Windows!?!?!
> > >
> > > -Scott
> >
> > I figured it out..
>
> So what did you do?
Simple:
'linux 3' at startup, followed by Xconfig (the Mandrake program) to make a new
XF86 config file. I rebooted, and voila! Not sure what caused the problem,
but it seemed kind of odd.
-Scott
