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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!sun-barr!olivea!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!kwan From: kwan@netcom.com (Kwan-Seng Low) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: X386 Installation Woes Message-ID: <zxynq5j.kwan@netcom.com> Date: 14 Sep 92 19:05:17 GMT References: <g7xnmdp@lynx.unm.edu> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Lines: 24 In article <g7xnmdp@lynx.unm.edu> meissner@triton.unm.edu (John Meissner) writes: >After obtaining the X386 release from agate.berkeley.edu (/pub/incoming/X386), >I find that I am unable to make it do anything after performing the steps >outlined for installation. I have made the appropriate links, installed the >kernel which was provided with the distribution, mknod /dev/vga, and >everything else I can think of. > >When I start X, 'startx', the screen clears, I get some strange graphic stuff >on the screen in graphics mode, and then the server restores to text mode >with the error message 'XIO fatal IO error 32 (Broken Pipe)'. After running >xdm and examining the file 'xdm-errors', I see that X is detecting my video >board as an ET4000 with 16 clocks (the first few are correct), and then >it follows with an error message to the effect 'fatal server error, cannot >load default font 'fixed''. > >Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can try to get this thing up and >running? Thank you for your time and effort. On your Xconfig file, on the line where it says fontpath:..... get rid of the 2nd entry where it says /usr/X386/lib/fonts/.. Speedo. That path wasn't exist at all. You should be fine now. Tooks me 2 weeks to figure that out! Kwan