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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1487 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:43:55 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!src.honeywell.com!The-Star.honeywell.com!umn.edu!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!gecko.oes.orst.edu!matt From: matt@gecko.oes.orst.edu (Matt Curfman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Help: can't install XS3 w/ Fahrenheit VLB Date: 15 Feb 1993 22:52:28 GMT Organization: Oregon State University, Corvallis OR USA Lines: 25 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1lp6rcINNlu8@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> References: <1lp561$lc7@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gecko.oes.orst.edu In article <1lp561$lc7@agate.berkeley.edu> tandean@cory.Berkeley.EDU (tandean tekno) writes: >Hi... > >I have been installing XS3 for a couple of days, but I couldn't make it run.. > >> failed to set default font path '/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fo75dpi/' >> Fatal server error: >> could not open default font 'fixed' >> >> Exiting > >Did I miss something when I installed it? I think I did something stupid! :) >Or XS3 doesn't support Orchid Fahrenheit VLB yet? It's S3 though... > My understanding is that the XS3 server doesn't support compressed fonts. I had a similiar problem, but uncompressed all of the fonts, ran mkfontdir to re-create the font database, and viola, it worked! Your mileage may vary ... -mc _____________________________________________________________________________ Matt Curfman Almanac Information Archivist matt@gecko.oes.orst.edu Oregon State University Extension