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From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: XFree86 - missing fixed font
Message-ID: <i2cZuB1w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us>
Date: 29 Nov 92 03:04:05 GMT
References: <1992Nov29.231419.22632@decuac.dec.com>
Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA
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darryl@vfofu1.dco.dec.com (Darryl Wagoner) writes:

> Thank you everyone for all of the suggestions.  But I am afraid that
> I am still stuck.  I didn't have speedo fonts loaded and I made sure
> my font directory was located and readable in the right place.  Still
> no go.  Any more ideas?

1) make sure your fontpath is correct in Xconfig.
2) uncompress all fonts in the ~/fonts/misc directory
3) run 'mkfontdir' in the misc fonts directory
) recompress the *.pcf font files (if necessary)

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Bob Kirkpatrick <bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us>
Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA