On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 11:19, jim tate wrote: > Running in vesa mode. > XFree86-4.3.0-55 > What does this mean; > > Fatal Server Error > could not open default font 'fixed' Most commonly this means you are not running a font server. As root, run "service xfs start", then see if X starts. Use "chkconfig --level 5 xfs on" to have xfs always start after a reboot. Cheers, Ben