Thank you for this email! I haven't administrated a redhat machine for a long time - I wasn't sure how it was setup.
I've noted down your points for future reference :) JohnFlux On Thursday 30 January 2003 8:50 pm, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, John Tapsell wrote: > >Sir, > > > > Sorry for the last couple of emails.. heh > > > > First, reboot. Then boot by: > > > > when you boot, pass the following option to the kernel: > > > >'init=/bin/bash" > > > > So if you normally type "linux", do "linux init=/bin/bash" > > There's probably a better way. Perhaps "linux single" works, or > >"linux safe". > > > > For some reason it is using /etc/X11/XF86Config , and not > >/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 as I had assumed. I appologies for my error. > > As of Red Hat 8.0 the default is to use only /etc/X11/XF86Config. The > use of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 was used up until then because of the > desire to support both XFree86-3.3.6 and XFree86-4.x.x. At the same > time the older RedHat written "Xconfigurator" tool was dropped and a new > "redhat-config-xfree86" tool introduced. > > > Please edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and add the unix/:-1 to the font path. > > It'll be interesting to see what comes from this. All the RedHat 8.0 > machines that I've ssen use the 7100 port. It would be informative if > the OP were to do a "netstat -A unix | grep font-unix" and then see if > the output matches something like this: > unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 2053 > /tmp/.font-unix/fs7100 > > > HTH, > Oisin Feeley > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
