Post #10,977
9/30/01 3:01:54 AM
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Mandrake Linux, X problem?
I configured X11 so it would run, only it complains that the font named "Fixed" is missing? Any bright ideas on how to find this font and install it? The Mandrake Linux installed should have copied it, but somehow it must not have or didn't place it in a searchable path?
Boggle!
Help?
Otherwise it looks like Mandrake Linux installed fine on my old 200Mhz Pentium MMX system.
Picking up the pieces of my broken life.
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Post #10,986
9/30/01 4:28:50 AM
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Common problem
There are a number of issues showing up with XF86 packages these days, the one you describe is among them.
What font packages do you have installed? Try plugging the exact error message into Google and seeing what it spits out. This is popping up all over the place these days.
Just let me know when you start rendering text as rectangles....
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Post #11,025
9/30/01 7:14:06 PM
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Re: Mandrake Linux, X problem?
Did You start xfs service (x font server) ??
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Post #11,029
9/30/01 7:45:31 PM
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These are the "misc" fonts
The config file for the font server is /etc/X11/fs/config. The catalogue should contain a reference to misc:unscaled.
The fixed fonts should be in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc. These fonts are contained in the base XFree86 package, so they should be there.
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Post #12,115
10/6/01 11:35:13 PM
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I switched to Red hat 7.1
It appears to be working, I guess the Mandrake Install had a few bugs in it?
I am posting this from Konqueor, soon to install Mozilla.
Picking up the pieces of my broken life.
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Post #12,123
10/7/01 3:59:16 AM
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Re: I switched to Red hat 7.1
In the past, I've found Mandrake to be a great "Ideas" distribution; they do a lot of cool stuff early on that other distros pick up later.
Unfortunately, I've also found Mandrake to be quite buggy.
I go for Red Hat, too. And very nice it is too.
Peter
Shill For Hire
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Post #12,125
10/7/01 7:42:22 AM
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And they finally made X optional.
It has taken RedHat some years to do it, but it is actually easy with 7.1 to not install X Windows. It was almost possible in 6.2 - IIRC the closest you got was a few libraries you couldn't deselect. It was not possible in 5.2 - someone told me they couldn't unselect it; he had to remove it later.
Wade.
"All around me are nothing but fakes
Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
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Post #12,129
10/7/01 10:08:02 AM
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SuSE 7x
Can't imagine why anyone would use RedHat * over this. By far the best Linux distribution IMO and particularly for beginner/intermediate users.
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Post #14,710
10/22/01 11:07:47 PM
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Fear of a Red Hat
Now Red Hat 7.1 is doing the same thing. No "Fixed" font. It had been working for a while, and now out of the blue it gives me that error? I did a reformat from Mandrake to Red Hat, so nothing remained. Now my X won't start up! Also XFS failed on bootup. Any relation?
Should I switch to Darwin? If Apple doesn't keep hanging on the last block of the FTP download of the ISO image I may have already installed Darwin on the box! Grrrr! I am using GetRight now, if that don't do it I am giving up on trying Darwin!
Picking up the pieces of my broken life.
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Post #14,725
10/23/01 1:59:14 AM
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"Nothing changed and now it's not working"
You know and I know that the above statement just ain't true :)
In order to diagnose your problem, we need quite a bit of information; exact distro used, contents of /etc/X11/fs/config, fonts section of /etc/X11/XF86Config...
Generally you don't need a font server these days unless you know you need a font server. If you can't think why you'd want one, you don't need one.
Red Hat 7.1 ships with XFree86 version 4.mumble, which is quite capable of serving all the kinds of fonts (T1, TTF, Speedo, etc) by itself. I turn xfs off.
Step one. Please show me the section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config with the FontPath entries.
Peter
Shill For Hire
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Post #14,732
10/23/01 4:21:35 AM
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Font botches
As I said last time you posted with this problem (and as Pete seems insistant on not believing), there've been some relatively persistant problems with fonts with the migration to XFree86 v4, spanning several distros.
I'd suggest checking your X error logs. These go under /var/log/XFree86* in Debian, not sure w/ RH, you're an adult, look for 'em. You can also run X from the command line and pipe stdout/stderr to a file for examination.
There are a number of issues which seem to go to addressing this. I'd suggest poking around the debian-user list at [link|http://www.debian.org/|debian.org] (follow links to mailing lists). I found that part of the problem was that the font aliased as 'fixed' didn't exist.
Under Debian, several tricks have been found to work, including a forced reinstall of fonts, checking available fonts, rejiggering order of font paths in /etc/X11/XFree86-4, and a few other things. Mileage seems to vary considerably.
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Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com]
What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
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