Thanks. I'll give it a try when I get finished reading my e-mail.
Virginia
"Michael B. Trausch" wrote:
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> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Virginia K. Wills wrote:
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> > Thanks to some help I did find it and downloaded it. Since Linux isn't
> > recognizing my modem had to do this in my win98. Started to go back into
> > linux to could get it installed, logged in as root, typed startx. It tried to
> > open came back down through all the set up for my video card and monitor,
> > gave the following error message:
> >
> > failed to set default font path 'unix/:1'
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default font fixed.
> >
> > It brought me back to the command prompt. Not sure what I did wrong nor how
> > to fix it. Re-installed Redhat 6.0 thinking that would fix it but still get
> > the same message.
> >
> > Virginia
> >
>
> It seems that Red Hat 6.0 does that sometimes -- the problem is that
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start doesn't reliably start xfs -- the X Font Server
> - -- and then xfs dies. If you try doing xfs & from the command line then
> try startx, that might work -- it does for me, anyway.
>
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