On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Gregory McGarry wrote:

> Jonathan Stone wrote:
> 
> > I think the the -fp option isn't quite correct.  You need to use
> > something like
> > 
> >        X -fp trillian/tcp:7100
> > 
> > or, as I would recommend,
> >  
> >        X -fp localhost/tcp:7100
> 
> User ZOMBIE wrote:
> 
> > The changes to the fontserver didn't help. The servers exits with the error:
> > 
> > failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X
> > 11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
> > /'
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default font 'fixed'
> > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> 
> Try this:
> 
> # ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/Xcfbpmax /usr/X11R6/bin/X
> # ln -s /dev/fb0 /dev/mouse
> # ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib /store
> # /usr/X11R6/bin/xfs &
> # /usr/X11R6/bin/X -fp tcp/localhost:7100
> 
> You will have to edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers.

Just my $.02 on this:

The fonts in the latest snapshot seems to be incomplete. I had the same
problem, and switched back to the fonts-directories from a previous
snapshot. (It's always nice to keep backups close...)

	Johnny

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