Subject: Re: XF4.0.1 / iMac DV SE / 'fixed font'
From: philippe tapon (ptapon@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Nov 08 2000 - 13:56:17 MST
Thanks much for writing. This problem is still beating me.
David Marceau wrote:
>
> Last time I saw this was because I didn't have enough disk space on my
> machine.
> The Font server seems to allocate a huge chunk of disk space for fonts.
I've got half a gig on / and a gig on /usr. Surely that's enough? =)
> It may also be that you haven't installed all the fonts. If you did a
> custom install, this may have happened.
> If you did a full install, I don't know. The default settings for the font
> stuff worked for me.
Hmm. I didn't do anything screwy like customize an installation; I went
with defaults all the way. But now I'm looking to get extra fonts, now
that it's Christmas and all.
> Have you been able to get the startx running at all? My default ydl install
> for the x window stuff didn't run first shot.
> It may be that you haven't configured the XF86Config properly for your
> particular monitor yet. Especially observe the horiz rate and vertical rate
> for the different screen resolutions. I needed to change the settings for
> this for even the standard apple 17" multi-scan display.
it gets fairrrrly far: the text slides, the screen goes black, it looks
promising and then comes back to the console. I *think* it's really a
font problem and not a screen configuration problem. But I may be
wrong. Thanks again for the assistance. . . .
philippe
back to cursing my own ignorance: anthropophage! bashi-bouzouk! moule
ŕ gaufres! marin d'eau douce!
> I hope this helps Philippe :)
> -----------------
> Santé bonheur :)
> David Marceau
> http://www.deja.com/my/pb.xp?member_name=davidmarceau4432
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: philippe@metrowerks.com
> > [mailto:philippe@metrowerks.com]On Behalf
> > Of philippe tapon
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 10:36 PM
> > To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > Subject: Re: XF4.0.1 / iMac DV SE / 'fixed font'
> >
> >
> > hello
> >
> > Does anyone have any wisdom to offer about getting the
> > XF86Config to see
> > fixed fonts? When I try running startx it bombs out saying it can't
> > find default font 'fixed'. I've tried setting many different versions
> > of FontPath, including :
> >
> > FontPath "usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2"
> > FontPath "usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/misc"
> >
> >
> > entries like
> >
> > FontPath "usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/{etc}"
> >
> > won't work because there is no fonts directory in my X11R6 (4.01)
> > directory. I compiled X 4.01 from source using a 2.4.0-test10 kernel
> > and synced modules. The installation was a CS 1.2.1.
> >
> > any ideas, anyone? I've read the documentation about fonts
> > in the X11R6
> > lib; it's interesting but offers no fixes.
> >
> > I'd (especially) like to thank grifter|ppc for all his help. . . .
> >
> >
> > philippe
> >
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