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cfreeman
03-24-2001, 09:36 PM
I just recently installed Mandrake 7.0 and it worked fine until today. It used to go straight to a graphical login but today when I booted up the screen just sort of flashed and it went to the non-graphical login. When I type startx it comes back with an error message:
'could not open default font "fixed" '

I also noticed that when I shutdown and it goes through the checklist of devices it says "Failed" next to the X Font Server and Zope
I really don't know what this means but I know that it didn't say this before.
I'm sure there's probably some way to get X-Windows set up properly again but I don't really know how other than just doing another install(yuck!)
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
-Cliff :confused:

bdg1983
03-25-2001, 04:44 AM
The easiest way is to comment out the fixed font line in /etc/XF86Config.

The question has also been asked a few times in the past week. Try searching the main forums here for other solutions.