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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi ASAMI)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: X386 2.1.1 misc font problem??
Date: 28 May 94 10:00:38
Organization: CS Div. - EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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In-reply-to: thuy@ftp.jsc.nasa.gov's message of Fri, 27 May 1994 12:14:16 PST
In article <1994May27.201416.9854@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
thuy@ftp.jsc.nasa.gov (Thuy Mai) writes:
* i had xfree 2.1.1 up & running. under "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts" has couple
* directories : 100dpi, 75dpi, misc. i went each of the font directory and
* uncompress, if i uncompress fonts under "misc", i could not be able to bring
* up the x server. i went back in compress the fonts under "misc", it doesn't
* help either.... The only way that i can make it work is to reload the whole
* xfree.
*
* any ideas !!!!
Who gave you the idea that you have to uncompress the fonts? As far
as I know, they are compressed by default, and should work like that.
Saves space, no need to uncompress them.
The reason why X failed to come up when you messed with misc/ is
probably because the "default" font, "fixed", is under that directory.
I don't know why it didn't work when you re-compressed them, maybe you
did "compress *" and compressed fonts.dir and fonts.alias (two text
files not supposed to be compressed).
Anyway, next time you mess with fonts, try "mkfontdir" and see what
happens. That will read the font files in the directory and
reconstruct the fonts.dir file.
Satoshi (I'm talking about FreeBSD, but I think NetBSD's the same)