Subject: Re: Crashes with XFree86
To: None <WOFerry+@CMU.EDU>
From: Brian J. Fox <bfox@samsara.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/22/1996 12:37:40 
   Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 10:09:58 -0500 (EST)
   From: William O Ferry <WOFerry+@CMU.EDU>
   Sender: owner-port-i386@NetBSD.ORG
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       I've configured XFree86 for my system, and when I run it, before the
   first Xterm can even finish loading, the machine locks hard.

I had a similar problem.  Paring down the fonts that I listed in
XF86Config essentially solved the problem for me.

You can test this out by simply commenting out all of the FontPath
lines except for 75dpi and misc:

    Section "Files"
	RgbPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    #    FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    #    FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
    #    FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
    EndSection

and then starting a simple X, with:

	xinit xterm -fn fixed

Brian