Help Me...XFree86 config.....
Hi,
I installed XFree86...in my old laptop running Arch Linux... I installed it as per the procedure given in XFree86 website.... Everything went fine...The screen flicked for a second or two...But finally I got this message... ' Fatal Server error : could not open default font 'fixed' S0 I rebooted the system....& entered 'startx'...Again the same thing happened ( screen flickered for abt 2 secs )... I checked the Logfile...Every thing was OK...But I found some lines that was not OK... (II)chips(0):Built in Def monitor:using Drx-derived (II)chips(0):Built in Def monitor:hsync range of 30.82-38.52 Khz (II)chips(0):Built in Def monitor:hsync range of 60.0.0Hz (II)chips(0):Built in Def monitor:clock range : 11.00 to 93.54 mhz (II)chips(0):Not using def mode"640*350"(vrefresh out of range ) (II)chips(0):Not using def mode"640*350"(bad mode clock/interlace/double scan) (II)chips(0):Not using def mode"640*400"(vrefresh out of range ) (II)chips(0):Not using def mode"640*200"(bad mode clock/interlace/double scan) (II)chips(0):Not using def mode"800*600"(vrefresh out of range ) (II)chips(0):Not using def mode"400*300"(bad mode clock/interlace/double scan) This repeats on for various combos of screensizes....... Then Finally, 'Fatal Server error:could not open default font fixed' If any one needs me to copy & paste the entire logfile...plz let me know... My laptop does not have Internet conection...SO I have to copy the log file into a floppy & then use it on my desktop .... So also plz tell me how to copy the log file into the floppy...( am somewat new to Linux.still learning... ) Hardware Specs are as follows, Display Display Type: 12.1" DSTN passive matrix integrated Max Resolution: 800 x 600 ( SVGA ) Widescreen Display: No Colour support: 24-bit (16.7 million colours) Video Graphics Processor / Vendor: C&T 65555 - PCI Video Memory: EDO RAM - 2 MB Supported Display Graphics: VGA (640x480), XGA (1024x768), SVGA (800x600), SXGA (1280x1024) Am ready to provide further info on this issue if reqd. Any help is greatly appreciated. ...... Thanx.. |
"fixed" is a font type you need to install...
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So should i install any font engine.......& then try again.....Is there any suggestion on which font engine has all types of fonts..... that could resolve problem like these...????
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xfree86 should include xft, you also need to install fontconfig and freetype2
and after installing freetype2 run this: ln -s /usr/include/freetype2/freetype /usr/include/freetype |
I tried installing fontconfig & freetype .......... but i get something like..... " make...Incomplete.....Newly distributed files ar older than the existing files... Check your system clock "...I googled on that issue & I found that....I need to change some bios clock settings initially... Could any one plz explain more on this ...& how to overcome this...???
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ntp will adjust your clock without the need of powering down/getting in to the BIOS/ and booting back up...
http://www.ntp.org/ install it and run ntpd for a little while and very soon a timeserver will adjust your clock to being very close to NIST's atomic clock in Fort Collins Colorado (within half a second)... after your clock is adjusted you can kill ntpd (the ntp daemon) and only have to run it once in a while when your time needs adjusting... make a text file named ntp.conf and save in /etc (add the following lines) server 0.pool.ntp.org server 1.pool.ntp.org server 2.pool.ntp.org server pool.ntp.org |
Thanx man....But even now after extracting the ntp...& while trying to configure it....I get the same message...."Check your system clock..."
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ouch, i guess you will have to set the time & date first before building anything...
plus in /etc you may have to make adjustments http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TIMEZONE |
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