PiotrAF wrote:

> I just unmerge (emerge -C) xfree and emerge xorg-x11. As I read the
> message it stated that unless xorg.conf is found it will read XF86Config,
> which is fine with me and works
> so I:
> cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> the X tries to start i.e. I see nvidia then fails
> the log says
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> it starts fine
>
> I didn't reboot yet but i don't think that might have influence.
> How come?

Have you changed all the font paths in the configuration file? I believe for
xorg-x11, the paths should be: /usr/share/fonts/* Not sure why one file
would work and not the other though...?