On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 11:40, Dick Brown wrote: > OK, there was no 'rhgb' in my boot loader, so I got in and manually > changed /etc/inittab. > > The command 'X -probeonly' didn't seem to do anything helpful. I saw > some text flash on the screen, but then the screen blanked. I checked > the log file, but no help there. I went ahead and just ran 'X' and > again checked the log file. I saw the following messages near the bottom: > > could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list > fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' This may be the classic X Font server problem. Try to restart (or start) xfs: service xfs restart Forrest