Thread: could not open default font 'fixed'

Hey,

I'm using RHEL6.1 X64 with RealVNC 4.1.

while running 'vncserver' command - I receive the following error in the vnc .log file.

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'



Could someone please help me out here?


Thanks.

Can you attach or post your xorg.conf from /etc/X11 directory? You need to set FontPath in this file.

Originally Posted by nixcraft

Can you attach or post your xorg.conf from /etc/X11 directory? You need to set FontPath in this file.

Hey nix and thanks for your quick reply.

I managed to overcome this issue by linking the font folders to /usr/share/X11/fonts/<font name>

Now I have a new problem.. graphics seem to be messed up when I open the VNC window

SC_08.jpg

Any ideas?

BTW,

I'm using the following video card:

[root@lx1011 fonts]# lspci -v | grep -i vga
01:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])


and in xorg.conf I think it's defined well:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:1:3:0"

Also, while working on the server locally - all graphics seem to be ok.

It just get messy while using remote VNC.


Thanks.

For anyone whois interested to know... I managed to fix it by removing RealVNC and install TigerVNC instead. All graphics glitches are now solved.

Thanks.