xorg 7.2 start problem

[Iulian M]

On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Andriy Babiy wrote:
> > You need at least the following ports:
> >
> >   x11-drivers/xf86-video-mga
> >   x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse
> >   x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard
>
> I wanted to thank everybody who helped me. I added those ports, and that
> fixed the problem I had before. So, I was able to issue:
> X -configure
> and obtain xorg.conf.new file. I checked the configuration and found that
> the hardware was recognized without errors. The pathes were changed
> to /usr/local accordingly.
>
> But when I issue:
> X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
>
> the X server doesn't start; it fails with the message:
>
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> I checked xorg.conf.new and found that the pathes to appropriate fonts are
> listed there, namely:
>
> xorg-fonts-100dpi-7.2
> xorg-fonts-75dpi-7.2
> xorg-fonts-cyrillic-7.2
> xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-7.2
> xorg-fonts-truetype-7.2
> xorg-fonts-type1-7.2
>
> I checked all the directories; they exist, and their contents exist. I
> tried mkfontdir in each of them, but it changed nothing.
>
> Maybe, you could advise me what I need to do in order to resolve it, apart
> from rebuilding the whole thing. Thank you very much in advance!
>

<joke>
Yep... you have to rebuild everything. Not to fix the error but just because 
you don't read other threads on the ML
</joke>

On another thread the conclusion was that installing x11-fonts/font-alias 
solved the fixed font problem.



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