[SPARCbook] Font problem.

[Ari Heitner]

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Eric Busto wrote:

> Good day,
--snip--
>    Hmm, I thought, then I logged in and tried to start X up manually with 
> /usr/X/bin/X, and it responded with the following:
>    "Fatal server error:  could not open default fond 'fixed'"
> 
>    I found no reference to 'fixed' in any font directory to my knowledge, 
> but I'm probably just lacking something simple and silly.  Any help would be 
> much appreciated.
> 
> -Eric
> 

I think I know what's happening: you can't do that -- you don't have an
appropriate environment to start X with, namely you don't have a font path
set. You need to be using xinit to start X.

For a while I was using the standard Debian startx script (in the
xbase-clients package), which worked fine. Don't have a copy of the one
I'm using now (not on the SB3 at the moment). 



Cheers,

Ari