> Hello everybody, > > So, here is the story, A friend gave me his old Lifebook 420D and I > decided to go with a Debian install on it. I read up on the difficulties > some have had getting XFree86 to work on it, and I've used their > information to the best of my knowledge in getting X to work. > > Its a simple problem, but one I should know better to take care of. When > I initiate X (startx or xinit) the laptop begins to spew a whole bunch of > information and attempts to start X. It craps out shortly and returns the > following error: > > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > > Some links have pointed me to some possibilities with the font.aliases > file, but I haven't quite yet ventured there. I'm wondering if anyone has > had any similar problems, and if you could hopefully point me along in the > right direction. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > --Raf
Either turn on the font server before launching X (don't wory, xfs doesn't eat much) or, fix your XF86Config file so that is explicitly allows fonts from the misc family to be accessed directly. aliasing 'fixed' to a different favorite would still require the new fave to be on the FontPath declared in XF86Config. It's also the hard way. * Heather Stern * star@ many places...
