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Re: wierd xfs problem.



Hmm... Yes, this is one of the most unstable parts - both in Redhat & in
Mandrake...

In KDE for example - sometimes asking to changing the fixed fonts kill the X
font server..

Hetz

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> 
> > Are you talking about SGI's XFS?
> >
> > We have here at work a machine with Redhat 7 and XFS with it - not a single
> > problem (well, there is one - it seems that Star Office is crashing with it),
> > and it runs perfectly with XFree 4.x
> 
> xfs , as in /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs
> 
> X Fonts Server
> 
> On redhats and mandrakes, X can't live long without xfs up, as all the
> fonts are supplied by the fonts server.
> 
> (you get the strange error message "can't find font 'fixed'", and then X
> gives up and crashes)
> 
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> Tzafrir Cohen
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> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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Hardware Research dept.
Aduva Inc.

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