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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 17:40:15 +0200
From: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at>
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Subject: Re: "Could not open default font 'fixed'" after upgrade 6.9->7.2
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On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:55:46PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After successfully upgrading Xorg from 6.9 -> 7.2 as per
> /usr/ports/UPDATING I built a new xorg.conf using "Xorg -configure".
> 
> When starting X with the new config-file, i.e. "X -config
> xorg.conf.new" it bails bails out with the following error:
> 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'

Hi,

Just figured this one out myself a minute ago:

The trick was to re-install font-misc-misc and font-cursor-misc. Dunno
why these were left out when Installing the Xorg meta-port
(i.e. x11/xorg as per UPDATING), but reinstalling them made this error
disappear.

-ewald