[lug] Problems with X 4.0.3

[John Starkey]

I've had this problem before, after an upgrade from RH6.2 to 7. I never
fixed it but it was mainly a command line box anyway, so I didn't try
too hard and wasn't worried about it.

But I witnessed this at CLIQ last week. Took a while but they found the
problem. It had something to do with the name resolution. X was unable
to determine the hostname, so it couldn't create a socket. You're error
probably says "Unable to make connection to Font Server", "Unix: -1" or
"Unix: 7000" or something under it right?

Sorry I can't help any further.

John

rm at mamma.varadinet.de wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 07:16:42AM -0700, Dhruva Reddy wrote:
> > I just bought a Hercules Prophet II MX AGP video card,
> > and am trying to get it to work on Debian box.
> >
> > According to the documentation for the GeForce2 MB
> > chipset, a 4.0 X server is required.  Since Debian has
> > not yet packaged the 4.0 SVGA X server, I downloaded
> > the source and built it.  It seemed to build and
> > install OK, but it does not seem to run.  I get an
> > error "could not open default font 'fixed'".  Could
> > this have to do with xfs?  Or is it that I don't have
> > the font installed correctly?
> >
> > I have included the log file, as well as my XF86Config
> > file.
>
> >From the log messages and your server configuration
> it seems like you use an X-fontserver and want to
> access it via a unix socket. Is there a running instance
> of an X fontserver. If so you need to check if this
> server has access to the font directories.
>
>  Ralf Mattes
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