I recently compiled XFree86 4.3.0.1 on Debian. The build went rather smoothly, with a few minor dependency problems, but those were easy to resolve. Once installed, I set up a basic XF86Config file, but am getting the following error when trying to start X (through startx, and xinit).
Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'
I have checked all of the font paths in XF86Config, and have tried some of the resolutions documented on news groups and web sites through searching Google. Some of these resolutions included:
- Ensuring that /tmp was not full, and chmod 777
- Ensuring that the system locales and X11 locales ISO codes matched (Debian puts a _ or - in the ISO codes, X11 does not).
- Checking the font paths
- Removing any TrueType fonts from the config (which I didn't have anyway)
So, I'm stuck. I'm using Debian 3.0r1 on a Laptop (ATI Video Card, 16MB video RAM)... any suggestions? Below is a slightly more detailed XFree86 dump from /var/log/XFree86.0.log, and also my XF86Config file.
Many thanks, Aaron Bockover [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----XFree86.0.log---- ... (II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M (**) Option "Protocol" "auto" (**) Mouse0: Protocol: "auto" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse0: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" (**) Mouse0: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (==) Mouse0: Buttons: 3 (II) Keyboard "Keyboard0" handled by legacy driver (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE) (--) Mouse0: PnP-detected protocol: "ImPS/2" (II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' ----End----
----XF86Config---- Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "XFree86 Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection
Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" EndSection
Section "Module" Load "extmod" Load "dbe" Load "dri" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "pex5" Load "xtrap" Load "xie" Load "speedo" Load "type1" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" EndSection
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Monitor Model" EndSection
Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "vesa" VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" BoardName "Radeon Mobility M6 LY" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
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