Most like your font setup is screwed up. Take a look in
/var/log/XFree86.0.log and see if all font directories are specified
properly.
Vladimir Dergachev
On 7 Jan 2002, Tom Korte wrote:
> I�m running Linux-Mandrake 8.1 and recently bought an ATI 7500 video card. In order
>to get support for the card I migrated to Xfree86 CVS. The card works really nice
>after doing a �make World� and a �make install� but I now have problems with the
>availability of some fonts.
>
> Some of the specific application problems are as follows.
> (these all worked under Framebuffer prior to CVS)
> Xawtv: will not start
> Xmms: starts and has lettering in the player, but no text in the playlist
> Mandrake Control Centre: will not start
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions? I�m not sure what to make of it because there are
>obviously fonts available for other applications, but only some seem to crash.
>
> I can run some commands and post the output if that would help with the debugging.
>The �unix:-1� font server is still listed in the X config file and the config file
>for xfs is intact as well.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Tom Korte
>
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