On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > root, > > Okay, for starter, do you own a computer? What color is it?
;) No, he should fix his font setup or complain to Red Hat (his X server is compiled by Red Hat, so presumably is the rest of his system). The log contains a complaint to the effect that it did expect to talk to a font server but there wasn't one running (i.e. the font setup contained a path to a font setup on top of/instead of paths directly to font files). "root": run xfs and see what happens. Otherwise use google or get some support from Red Hat - they've got to have mailing lists where you can get more specific help than here. xfree86 developers: could the X server be made to look in the obvious places for fonts in case everything else fails? Or have the "fixed" font compiled in, somehow? That should cut down the number of bug reports by end-users a good deal (10-20% ?). http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2002-May/msg00030.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2002-May/msg00036.html Better error messages could also help. In this case something like "One of the ways I tried to get fonts was through a font server but I couldn't find one. Could you please try the command: xfs and then start the X server again?" -Peter _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
