From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 14 05:21:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA27399 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 05:21:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mongoose.cs.unm.edu (mongoose.cs.unm.edu [198.59.151.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA27394 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 05:21:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cfaehl@cs.unm.edu) Received: from enterprise.cs.unm.edu(really [198.59.151.20]) by mongoose.cs.unm.edu via smail with smtp id for ; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 06:21:33 -0700 (MST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #3 built 1997-Mar-7) Received: from crow.cs.unm.edu(really [198.59.151.172]) by enterprise.cs.unm.edu via smail with esmtp id for ; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 06:21:33 -0700 (MST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #18 built 1997-Feb-28) Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Rick Knebel cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:40:51 EST." <199711132340.SAA02155@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 06:21:12 -0700 From: "Chris Faehl" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi, > I have had freebsd 2.2.2 runing fine on my machine with Accel X 3.1 for about > a month. > I decided to do a clean install of 2.2.5 since I did not have alot of stuff in > 2.2.2 setup yet. > I got through the install of both 2.2.5 nad my accel X 3.1 fine. > When I try to start x with the command startx it crashes and gives me two > error messages. > Failed to set default font path > Could not open default font 'fixed' > I have tried installing it several times and even installed everything once > with the thought that I might have been leaving something out. > It still did not work. > I went back and installed 2.2.2 again and x worked fine with Accel v3.1. > This is extremely frustrating. > Can anyone lend a hand? Hi, Rick, Yes, this drove me crazy, too. The scoop is this: Accelerated X doesn't support gzipped fonts (they do support compressed fonts). So what you gotta do is ungzip the fonts. Here's how: cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts gzip -d */*.gz Once you do that, I understand you can run mkfontdir in each directory. I didn't - I just edited fonts.dir in the directories 100dpi, 75dpi, and misc. Worked like a charm after this. By the way, this problem is noted at www.xigraphics.com in the Accelerated X FAQ. I believe they also have a downloadable script that'll do the above for you. > Thanks Alot > > -- > Rick Knebel > rknebel@mail.csrlink.net > > -- Chris Faehl (cfaehl@cs.unm.edu)