giancarlo writes:
> Hi
>
> Thanks a lot for your sugestion that works fine! Can you help me in
> another way answering two questions? 1- what kind of the problem did my
> xserver broke? 2- what's exactly mean "unix/:-1"? Thaks again.
>
I suspect that your xfs (x font server) is either not running or
was started on the wrong port. In Mandrake 6, there was a bug
in the script which starts xfs.
You could see whether it is running and the switches used with
the command "ps auxw | grep xfs".
The change which you made included a catalog of fonts in
XF86Config and enabled X to find the fonts without using xfs.
If you want to use xfs, uncomment the line
# FontPath "unix/:-1"
and make sure that xfs is started initially on port -1.
The startup script should be in /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs
and linked to /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc5.d/S90xfs.
My copy of Mandrake 6 had a problem with this script.
You might have the same version. I fixed it as follows.
# daemon --check xfs su xfs -c xfs -s /bin/sh
daemon xfs -port -1
I don't understand what the orginal line, which is now
commented out, was trying to do, so my change might have
some undesirable side-effect. But it seems to work.
Note that the daemon command needs to be fixed in both the
"start)" and "restart)" sections.
You can check to see if the script will start xfs by
changing to its directory as root and executing it.
E.g.
[shelby@brumelle shelby]$ cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
[shelby@brumelle init.d]$ su
Password:
[root@brumelle init.d]# ./xfs restart
Hope that this helps,
Shelby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
