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azdruid
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 Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:57 pm Post subject: "could not open default font 'fixed" modular Xorg |
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I've just recently installed modular Xorg by following the instructions in the official guide. However, I have hit somewhat of a snag. My xorg.conf is configure correctly, I am almost positive, but I still receive errors on startx.
| Code: | Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/misc, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/100dpi, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/TTF, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/Type1, removing from list!
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed' |
Here's the thing: all of those directories contain fonts according to ls. However, misc does not contain "fixed," so that part of the error message is valid.
I've tried mkfontdir, and it doesn't help at all. I've tried re-emerging xorg, and it does not help either.
What I am asking is, how do I obtain the fixed font, and how do I get Xorg to accept those directories?
Thanks in advance! |
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Tiger683
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| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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The font fixed is an alias, the aliases are installed by the font-alias package, which is a hard dependency of xorg, so you DO have it.
I am 100% certain i know what your problem is:
remove -Bdirect from your ldflags and reemerge X and the font related libraries
Also, reemerging the fonts might also be necessary...
To cheer you up: I've been there too, this week 
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azdruid
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| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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You have guessed quite correctly, -Bdirect is in my LDFLAGS. I will remove it at once and do that emerging.
I appreciated the speedy response, thanks very much. |
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mrcs
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, you only need to emerge x11-libs/libXfont without the -Bdirect to get it to work. That's the beauty of modular xorg, no need to recompile the whole thing  |
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Tiger683
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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| kireru wrote: | | Actually, you only need to emerge x11-libs/libXfont without the -Bdirect to get it to work. That's the beauty of modular xorg, no need to recompile the whole thing |
Thx for clarification...
I was too happy when i solved it for myself to investigate any further
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bigbob73
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| Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 2:59 am Post subject: |
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| Tiger683 wrote: | | kireru wrote: | | Actually, you only need to emerge x11-libs/libXfont without the -Bdirect to get it to work. That's the beauty of modular xorg, no need to recompile the whole thing |
Thx for clarification...
I was too happy when i solved it for myself to investigate any further |
i've tried to emerge libXfont without -bdirect, but still can't startx as user, only root. Any other suggestions?
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bigbob73
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| Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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never mind, i finally got it working
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EclipseX
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| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:27 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | bigbob73: never mind, i finally got it working |
Could you tell me exactly what you did to get it working?
I've tried all those suggestions none are working, gives me the same error as root & regular user. |
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bigbob73
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| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:32 am Post subject: |
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| EclipseX wrote: | | Quote: | | bigbob73: never mind, i finally got it working |
Could you tell me exactly what you did to get it working?
I've tried all those suggestions none are working, gives me the same error as root & regular user. |
it was an error in the Conrad install overlay, had to edit bdirect out of /etc/portage/bashrc
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EclipseX
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ah ok tyvm  problem fixed. |
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R!tman
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Despite remerging quite a lot of stuff (including all packages of modular x) with and without the mentioned ldflag, I did not get my X to work. I also tried "solutions" given in some other posts in the forum, but I'm stuck  .
This is what I get when I do "startx":
| Code: | xauth: creating new authority file /home/ritman//.serverauth.5985
X Window System Version 7.0.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0
Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux bester 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jun 5 10:45:48 CEST 2006 x86_64
Build Date: 01 July 2006
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Jul 1 13:28:16 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Error: No Symbols named "us" in the include file "us"
> Exiting
> Abandoning symbols file "default"
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/misc, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/75dpi, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/100dpi, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/local/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, removing from list!
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. |
Any help is greatly appreciated. If you need any more info, please ask.
R!tman |
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R!tman
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| Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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I found out that 'mkfontdir' does not seem to work.
| Code: | cd /usr/share/fonts/misc/
mkfontdir |
produces a fonts.dir file, but it's empty. Copying this file from another computer gets rid of the error message
| Code: | | Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/misc, removing from list! |
but the error
| Code: | Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed' |
stays. |
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R!tman
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| Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 7:06 am Post subject: |
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In another post there was a problem with '/usr/lib/libXfont.so.1.5'. I had fixed that, but somehow my computer rather wanted to use '/lib/libXfont.so.1.5'.
That helped:
| Code: | | rm -rf /lib/libXfont* |
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