Try issuing 'mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*' That works for the xfree86 servers. It didn't work for the commercial Xi server which still says 'can't find font fixed' though. I have no idea if that will be good enough for metro-X...
-- Stephen Hsieh Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ. of Michigan at Ann Arbor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, cbebber wrote: > > Hello all. I will apologise in advance since I am sure that this is a really > dumb question, but I just installed Debian 1.3.1 for the first time last night > and I can't get X going. I am using MetroX 3.1.5 which has worked > wonderfully for me before under both Slackware and Red Hat. > > Anywho, once I do a 'startx', the screen goes black and I can't know to do > anything else but reboot and when I come back and check out /var/log/Xerrors, > it tells me that I have some problems loading the fonts. Here's the Xerrors, > but I don't know how to get the fonts all working. I would really appreciate > any help. Thank you in advance. > > -Charlie > > > Metro-X Version 3.1.5 > > Copyright (c) 1990-1996 by Metro Link Inc. > Copyright (c) 1989-1994 by M.I.T. > Copyright (c) 1994-1996 by X Consortium, Inc. > All Rights Reserved. > Read mouse Serial_MouseMan from Xconfig > Keyboard Description File is metro(us_101) > Opened /dev/tty7 > Loading /usr/lib/X11/Metro/modules/libibm8514.a > Screen 0: IBM8514, Chipset TRIO 64 V+ [4311e1] (128), 2048K RAM, DAC S3_TRIO, > PCI > Video mode "1024x768", dot clock = 65.0 MHz > Loading /usr/lib/X11/Metro/modules/libmlfb16.a > Font: X = 0, Y = 849, Width = 1024, Height = 175 > Bitmap: X = 0, Y = 849, Width = 1024, Height = 32 > Bitmap: X = 0, Y = 881, Width = 1024, Height = 143 > Pixmap: X = 0, Y = 768, Width = 1024, Height = 81 > DEC-XTRAP: AddExtension assigned Major Opcode '135' > DEC-XTRAP: Vers. 3.4-0 successfully loaded > Invalid font path elememt /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc > failed to set default font path > '/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1' > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > > -- > http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~cbebber > PGP Public Key finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PGP Fingerprint: 35 93 D1 42 D0 45 44 CB E7 8F 64 37 FB FD 54 5C > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
