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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PCEMU font problems...
Date: 3 Mar 1997 21:03:28 GMT
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sec@matrix.42.org (Stefan `Sec` Zehl) wrote:

> > xset: bad font element (#43), possible causes are:
> > 	Directory does no exist or has wrong permissions
> > 	(it does! and is root:bin drwxr-xr-x)
> > 	Directory missing fonts.dir
> > 	(it only has vga.pcf.Z inside...no good)
> 
> maybe you need to look at '/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir' ? 

Hmm, it seems it's time for me to upgrade the help text? :-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

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