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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5090 ; Mon, 21 Dec 92 17:13:44 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!news From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) Subject: Re: XFree86 and Fixed Fonts Errors Message-ID: <1992Dec21.012745.29506@ucc.su.OZ.AU> Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU Nntp-Posting-Host: physics.su.oz.au Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia References: <BywoI7.K64@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <RICH.92Dec8011413@omicron.Rice.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 01:27:45 GMT Lines: 50 In article <RICH.92Dec8011413@omicron.Rice.edu> Rich@rice.edu writes: >In article <BywoI7.K64@ucunix.san.uc.edu> leecs@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Christopher A Lee) writes: > I am setting up a PC with 386BSD 0.1 and XFree86. > When i start up X, the following messages are generated: > > XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System >[...] > VGA256: SpeedUp mode selected (Flags=0x30) > failed to set default font path '/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/' > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > >The problem turns out to be in the server. > >The solution is to add the following to your Xconfig: > >FontPath"/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" >FontPath"/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" >FontPath"/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" >FontPath"/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" >FontPath"/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" > >You can leave all of them in. The server will ignore the font >directories that don't exist. This will *not* work in version 1.1, because that version doesn't do any fontpath verification -- or accept multiple FontPath lines. The solution for now is to make sure that each directory specified in your FontPath exists and contains a file called fonts.dir. If you don't have some directories (like /usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo) then remove them from the FontPath. >In Xfree86 1.1 the server does not >verify the font path if you don't have a FontPath line in your >Xconfig. Missing font directories can then cause the server to fail. >This will get fixed in the next release. The support for multiple FontPath lines and full fontpath verification is planned for the next release (version 1.2). We don't have a firm date for that release yet -- but it should be out early in '93. >Rich, XFree86 team David -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Dawes (dawes@physics.su.oz.au) DoD#210 | Phone: +61 2 692 2639 School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia | Fax: +61 2 660 2903 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------