default font & internet connection

[gildedpage]

Yesterday I turned on my computer and X wouldn't start(using Mandrake 8). I got the error message "default font fixed". I commented out the FontPath unix/:-1" line in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and x started.
When I saw the desktop and the netscape browser I noticed that the font was different--not too suprising I guess. However, when I tried to use the net, I could connect but I got the "unknown name server" message whenever I clicked on a link. This happens in netscape and Konqueror. After messing around a little I got another error message "cannot convert string helvetica ******12*******to type font struct".
I don't know exactly what this means but I'm guessing that my default font was changed to helvetica and this is somehow screwing up my internet connection.
Any recommended courses of action?
Thanks,
SW

[fancypiper]

Use whatever x configuration tool your distro uses (RedHat6.2 has the setup utility that has several configuration utilities that are run from it) and that should fix it.

Some programs change where the system looks for its fonts.

I had that to happen to me several times (so I started working on learning the command line :cool: and I examined the configuration files for my distro: (/etc/X11/fs/config and /etc/X11/XF86Config).

I looked where it mentioned FontPath in each file and saw 2 different directories mentioned, so I created a symlink for the missing directory to point to the path that the fonts are located. I have had no problems with the fontserver since I did that.