I just got done suffering with the 'fixed font' error, I solved it by
simply switching around the order of FontPath's in the config file:
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
I know there are quite a few that suffer from that issue, so hope it
helps.
-Chad
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Shaya Potter wrote:
>
> are you suffering from "could not open default font 'fixed'" problem as
> well?
>
> shaya
>
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Craig Dickson wrote:
>
> > My Sid GDM can't start; I'm guessing something broke in some recent
> > daily upgrade, but I thought I'd inquire and see if anyone knows what's
> > causing it, and what workaround there might be other than downgrading
> > gdm and/or who knows what else.
> >
> > syslog has the following errors:
> >
> > gdm[488]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
> > gdm[492]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
> > gdm[496]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
> > gdm[500]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
> > gdm[479]: Failed to start X server several times in a short time period;
> > disabling display :0
> >
> > This is with gdm-2.2.4.3-1.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Craig
> >
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