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- From: rich@Rice.edu (& Murphey)
- Subject: Re: Font Problems with Xfree86
- In-Reply-To: DS1437@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu's message of 30 Dec 1992 16:01:37 -0600
- Message-ID: <RICH.92Dec30222620@superego.Rice.edu>
- Sender: news@rice.edu (News)
- Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu
- Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
- University
- References: <9212302201.AA01419@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:26:20 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- >>>>> In article <9212302201.AA01419@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu>, DS1437@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu writes:
- R>From: rich@Rice.edu (& Murphey)
- R>Subject: Re: Xfree86 Font directory problem?
- R>>>>>> In article <9212300215.AA00524@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu>, DS1437@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu writes:
- R>D> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu
- R>
- R>D> I am having problems getting Xfree86 running, it seems to initiaize
- R>D> the screen fine , but then switches back to text, and hangs the console
- R>D> port (still can telnet in). I found out that there is an error that
- R>D> the server is reporting but never showing, I can only get this error on
- R>D> a system that is telneted in, it is:
- R>
- R>D> failed to set default font path '/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386
- R>D> /lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/'
- R>D> Fatal server error:
- R>D> could not open default font 'fixed'
- R>
- R>The XFree86 1.1 server checks the font path more thoroughly if you
- R>set it in your Xconfig than if you use the default. Try setting it:
- R>
- R>FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
- R>
- R>and see if that helps. We are working on improving this for the next
- R>release. Rich
-
- D> I think thats where the server was getting the name for the font
- D> directories. Sorry I was going to include my Xconfig file in the message
- D> too, but I forgot. Here it is --
-
-
- D> #########################################################################
- D> RGBPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/rgb"
- D> FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
- [...]
-
- I was mistaken about the version 1.1 XFree86 server -- It doesn't
- verify the font path at all. So you need make sure that every
- directory in your font path is a valid directory containing fonts.dir
- file, etc. You could simplify it to a single directory such as:
-
- FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
-
- Another tip: the fonts distributed with the 386BSD binaries are
- intensionally compressed. If you uncompress them you must run
- 'mkfontdir' to rebuild the fonts.dir file. Uncompressing them and
- failing to do that could cause the "could not open default font
- 'fixed'" message. Rich
-
-