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- From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
- Subject: Re: Should XFree86 work with fs ?
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:57:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.195726.7029@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- References: <C0ponn.EGC@compound.se>
- Lines: 79
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- In article <C0ponn.EGC@compound.se> smith@compound.se (Bjorn Smith) writes:
- > We are having problems getting XFree86 working with the font server
- > supplied in the X11R5 source. The command fsinfo -server comsys:7000
- > gives the following output (wich appears to be ok):
- >
- > name of server: comsys:7000
- > version number: 2
- > vendor string: MIT X Consortium
- > vendor release number: 5001
- > maximum request size: 16384 longwords (65536 bytes)
- > number of catalogues: 1
- > all
- > Number of alternate servers: 0
- > number of extensions: 0
- >
- > The command fslsfonts lists all the expected fonts as well.
- >
- > The servers Xconfig file contains:
- >
- > #
- > # some nice paths, to avoid conflicts with other X-servers
- > #
- > #FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
- > FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,:comsys:7000"
- >
- > When starting the X386 server I get the following message:
- >
- > XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System
- > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
- > Configured drivers:
- > VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
- > et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
- > (using VT number 1)
- > VGA256: et4000 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 16)
- > VGA256: clocks: 25 28 61 72 79 69 50 64 13 14 36 0 40 26 0 33
- > VGA256: SpeedUp mode selected (Flags=0x3f)
- > failed to set default font path '/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,:comsys:7000'
- > Fatal server error:
- > could not open default font 'fixed'
- > giving up.
- > xinit: Software caused connection abort (errno 130): unable to connect to X server
- > xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
- >
- > Removing the font server item in Xconfig makes the X386 start properly !
- > What could possibly be wrong ?
- >
- > Thanks in advance for any kind of help,
- > --
- > Bj|rn Smith Compound Systems, phone +46 8 7923689
- > UUCP: {uunet,mcsun}!seunet!comsys!smith
- > Domain Address: smith@compound.se
- > --
- > Bj|rn Smith Compound Systems, phone +46 8 7923689
- > UUCP: {uunet,mcsun}!seunet!comsys!smith
- > Domain Address: smith@compound.se
-
-
- Well, it's a bug, but not what you think. The X386 manual page has the wrong
- syntax for specifying the font server (fixed in the next release).
-
- Change your FontPath line to:
-
- FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,tcp/comsys:7000"
-
- and everything should be fine.
-
- For whatever reason I don't understand, the X server will die if ANY
- piece of the font path is invalid. Sigh. This is in the MIT code
- that we haven't touched. We are looking into remedying this fact, but
- haven't tracked down a good solution yet. XFree86 1.2 will do a lot
- of font path validation during parsing of the Xconfig file, but it
- can't do much with font servers at that point.
-
- --
- David Wexelblat <dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com> (908) 957-5871
- AT&T Bell Laboratories, 200 Laurel Ave - 3F-428, Middletown, NJ 07748
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