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...

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...????

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...???

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..."

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