Re: lack of fonts

[Jeff Trefftzs <jeff tick tcsn net>]

Hi, Asher -

You might look at /etc/X11/XF86Config (on a RedHat system, 
anyway) and
see what your fontpath looks like.  On my RH 6.1-based system 
the relevant
section reads:
            ----------------------------------------------

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated 
together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server 
independent of
# the X server to render fonts.

    FontPath   "unix/:-1"

           ------------------------------------------------

You can also check the logfile:  look at /tmp/startx.log to see 
what happened.

HTH,
--Jeff T