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In article <BxG0EH.HM4@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>, pcrichar@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Pat Richard) writes:
|> In article <BxFnpI.Avx@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> jjeong@thoralf.uwaterloo.ca (Joohee Jeong) writes:
|>
|> >I tried installing SLS package and everything worked fine
|> >until I startx. It complained something about default font path,
|>
|> -- stuff omitted --
|>
|> >which I couldn't quite understood because that was the correct
|> >failed to set default font path '/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/'
|> >Fatal server error:
|> >could not open default font 'fixed'
|> >
|> >giving up.
|> >xinit: Invalid argument (errno 22): unable to connect to X server
|> >xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
|> >
|>
|> I ran into the same problem. Looking into the other Xconfig files, you'll
|> notice that some of them don't have the Speedo or the Type1 dirs in the
|> font path. So I removed these two from my Xconfig, leaving only the
|> 75dpi and the misc dirs in the font path. Then X worked fine.
|>
|> I still haven't been able to get X to use the Type1, Speedo or Bitstream
|> Type1 fonts yet, though.
|>
|> Also, make sure that the fonts are compressed and that there is a good
|> font directory in that dir (i.e. use mkfontdir)...
|> --
|>
|> Smoke another, brother... and THANX for 'whatever' !
|> Pat C. Richard,
|> pcrichar@cayley.uwaterloo.ca
Hi,
Two questions from a novice:
1. do the fonts need to be compress or uncompress ?
2. what is mkfontdir , where it can be found, and how I'll use it ?