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- From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
- Subject: Re: XFree86 and Fixed Fonts Errors
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.012745.29506@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
- References: <BywoI7.K64@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <RICH.92Dec8011413@omicron.Rice.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 01:27:45 GMT
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- In article <RICH.92Dec8011413@omicron.Rice.edu> Rich@rice.edu writes:
- >In article <BywoI7.K64@ucunix.san.uc.edu> leecs@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Christopher A Lee) writes:
- > I am setting up a PC with 386BSD 0.1 and XFree86.
- > When i start up X, the following messages are generated:
- >
- > XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System
- >[...]
- > VGA256: SpeedUp mode selected (Flags=0x30)
- > failed to set default font path '/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/'
- > Fatal server error:
- > could not open default font 'fixed'
- >
- >The problem turns out to be in the server.
- >
- >The solution is to add the following to your Xconfig:
- >
- >FontPath"/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
- >FontPath"/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
- >FontPath"/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
- >FontPath"/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
- >FontPath"/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
- >
- >You can leave all of them in. The server will ignore the font
- >directories that don't exist.
-
- This will *not* work in version 1.1, because that version doesn't do any
- fontpath verification -- or accept multiple FontPath lines.
-
- The solution for now is to make sure that each directory specified in
- your FontPath exists and contains a file called fonts.dir. If you don't
- have some directories (like /usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo) then
- remove them from the FontPath.
-
- >In Xfree86 1.1 the server does not
- >verify the font path if you don't have a FontPath line in your
- >Xconfig. Missing font directories can then cause the server to fail.
- >This will get fixed in the next release.
-
- The support for multiple FontPath lines and full fontpath verification is
- planned for the next release (version 1.2). We don't have a firm date for
- that release yet -- but it should be out early in '93.
-
- >Rich, XFree86 team
-
- David
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