So, I did some more research and based on the gdm/Xorg logs (below). My font.dir's weren't created so I created all of them with mkfontdir -e <dir>. xfs was disabled, so I enabled that just for kicks and grins. And I'm still getting the darned "could not open default font 'fixed' ".. even though an fc-list shows me "fixed" fonts. Help!
Xorg.0.log: .... .... (II) Keyboard0: Opened device "/dev/kbd" (--) Keyboard0: Keyboard type: USB (6) (--) Keyboard0: Keyboard layout: 33 (--) XKB: model: "sun_type6_usb" (--) XKB: layout: "us" (--) Keyboard0: XkbModel = sun_type6_usb (--) Keyboard0: XkbLayout = us (**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30" (**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg" (**) Keyboard0: XkbRules: "xorg" (**) Option "XkbModel" "sun_type6_usb" (**) Keyboard0: XkbModel: "sun_type6_usb" (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us" (**) Keyboard0: XkbLayout: "us" (**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off" (**) Keyboard0: CustomKeycodes disabled (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE) Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' ________________________ fc-list |grep Fixed Fixed:style=Bold KacstOneFixed:style=Regular Fixed:style=Bold SemiCondensed Fixed:style=SemiCondensed Fixed:style=Regular -- This message posted from opensolaris.org