Hi there.

Unless I did something very wrong, I upgraded to -current removing the
x11 packages and installing the xorg, libX and all the other stuff on
slackware/x. But them I got a problem. Everytime I tried to startx, I
got a message

Could not open default font 'fixed'

I installed *all* the font packages on -current, but no hope. Then, as
a last try, I installed the old x11-fonts-misc package, and voilá,
worked, I'm writing this message on my new xorg-server using the old
fonts. The question is: where are the fonts for the new xorg, are they
missing, or I forgot to do something?

Thanks.

TaQ <eustaquiorangel@gmail.com> wrote:
>Could not open default font 'fixed'

>The question is: where are the fonts for the new xorg, are they
>missing, or I forgot to do something?

/usr/share/fonts

Replace '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11' with '/usr/share' in your old
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.

On Mar 23, 7:00 am, kaukasoina703n7ds...@sci.fi (Petri Kaukasoina)
wrote:
> TaQ <eustaquioran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Could not open default font 'fixed'
> >The question is: where are the fonts for the new xorg, are they
> >missing, or I forgot to do something?
>
> /usr/share/fonts
>
> Replace '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11' with '/usr/share' in your old
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

I tried, with all the fonts packages installed, but it didn't worked.
Always the same message:

Could not open default font 'fixed'

Do you know what exactly is the fixed font and which package it is?
Maybe I need to check if the fonts files (font.alias, font.dir,
font.scale) were created right?

Thanks!

Seems that was some problem with the expat package while installing
the fonts.
A guy posted about this here:

http://willysr.blogspot.com/2007/03/...e-current.html

I'll remove and install all the new font packages again. ;-)

TaQ <eustaquiorangel@gmail.com> wrote:
>Always the same message:
>
>Could not open default font 'fixed'
>
>Do you know what exactly is the fixed font and which package it is?
>Maybe I need to check if the fonts files (font.alias, font.dir,
>font.scale) were created right?

The fixed font is in file 6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz in package
font-misc-misc-1.0.0-noarch-1.

'mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/misc' fixes the corresponding font.dir file
which misses the line containing 6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz. And you might as
well fix the others, first run mkfontscale and then mkfontdir for all font
directories.

TaQ <eustaquiorangel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I'll remove and install all the new font packages again. ;-)
>

Yes, that should help too. Or just rerunning the install script would be
enough:

/var/adm/scripts/font-misc-misc-1.0.0-noarch-1

(It runs mkfontdir which it could not do during the upgrade because mkfontdir
was not installed yet.)

> Yes, that should help too. Or just rerunning the install script would be
> enough:
> /var/adm/scripts/font-misc-misc-1.0.0-noarch-1
> (It runs mkfontdir which it could not do during the upgrade because mkfontdir
> was not installed yet.)

Hey, I removed the old package and reinstalled the new ones and
everything is fine.
It's very good to know about the install scripts, thank you!