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.