I've found with my friends fresh X4 that still isnt working yet that startx will only run as root, and report this fixed font error as a user.
I then assume that xhost +<username> will probably solve this, but until I can figure out a way to make fonts readable I'm just logging in as root. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > Do you have xutils installed? If not, you may need to install it and > run mkfontdir manually in each font directory (or "dpkg-reconfigure > xfonts-100dpi ..."). > > > I just did a new woody install and tried installing X 4.0.1 on it. > > When I run startx, X starts up but then crashes with the message: > > > > Fatal server error: > > could not open default font 'fixed' > > > > I've installed xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-base, xfonts-pex, and > > xfonts-scalable. Any clues what I'm missing? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Gerry > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
