on 25/11/01 4:25 AM, Mike A. Harris at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Bashar Asad wrote: > >> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 02:43:45 +0300 >> From: Bashar Asad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >> List-Id: XFree86 Font List <fonts.XFree86.Org> >> Subject: [Fonts]Help with fixed fonts >> >> Hello, >> Am getting this error message when running startx on my debian machine am >> using xfree86 ver 4.1.0 >> I think the top stuff is fine except the fixed font thing...I really don't >> know what to do >> >> (**) Generic Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2" >> (**) Generic Mouse: always reports core events >> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice >> No such device. >> (EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device >> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse" >> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) >> >> Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! >> >> Fatal server error: >> could not open default font 'fixed' > > Looks to me like you don't have a running fontserver. Start up > xfs, and it should be fine. > > I see people with this common problem a lot. In Red Hat Linux, > this would be done by: "service xfs start" however I'm not sure > what the Debian GNU/Linux syntax is for doing so. Could someone > let me know so I can give more specific info in the future to > Deb'ers? > > Thanks in advance. > TTYL > Hello, I started the xfs server and in debian I did /etc/init.d/xfs restart|start And the server started but the problem is the same except the line "Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!" Is not in the error messages so I guess that part is fixed...the it still get
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