On Sunday 01 May 2005 22:11, Deboo Geek wrote: > I had a normal working X a few days back. I have a dual bot system and > needed an app for a few days to work on som eproject so did not boot > in to linux for some days. Now when I boot in to linux, neither do I > get the gdm screen for login nor can I start X from console. I got the > error : "Failed to load default font fixed. This quite often means that the X font server is not running. make sure that you are in runlevel 3, not 5: init 3 service xfs status if it isn't running, then service xfs start and test again with startx One other thing that I have found to cause the same error message is faulty permissions on /tmp. ls -ld /tmp should look like this: drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 12288 May 2 10:46 /tmp/ if it doesn't, then chmod 1777 /tmp will fix that > > This PC has an Intel 865GF MB which is not detected by the kernel > 2.4.x which I'm on but still X was doing okay. I tried booting off of > knoppix and copying knoppix's XF86Config but now I get the error : No > screens found. How is knoppix able to start X and when I copy i t's > XF86Config, that doesn't work? differing paths in the file, possibly? which display drivers (grep driver /etc/X11/XF86Config) was the knoppix version using? > I kept looking for some tool to configure X, but there's no console > tool I could find. There used to be xf86config in old RH systems but > even that is not in Fedora, stramge! I have searched the Fedora > install CDs but there's no such tool actually many of the system-config-* tools work fine on a console. You stated that you had kernel 2.4. This would suggest you are running Fedora Core 1. In which case (I think) the commands were redhat-config-* so to configure your display you use redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig --noui (leave off the --noui if you want it to start the graphical config tool) > This raises another question: Is there a rpm equivalent to Debian's > apt-cache search and apt-cache show commands? apt works fine on Fedora Core - you can download it from http://dag.wieers.com/packages/apt/ the other alternative is yum, also available from dag. Although on latyer releases of Fedora Core it is part of the distribution -- Stuart Sears RHCE RHCX RTFM Don't worry. Life's too long. -- Vincent Sardi, Jr.
