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daniel meg wrote:

>I am running FreeBSD 4.8 RELEASE.
>
>Video Card: nVidia RIVA128
>
>I run the xf86config trillion of times..read through the manual over and over..but just can't get it to works...the attached file is the XFree86.log file and mine XF86Config file..hope BSD hackers will help..
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>  
>
I took a look at the log, and there was a warning in it:

> WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in 
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/".
>     Entry deleted from font path.
>     (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/").


Have you tried to reinstall your fonts ?

James Leone