Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 06:21:12 -0700 From: "Chris Faehl" <cfaehl@cs.unm.edu> To: Rick Knebel <rknebel@csrlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X problems Message-ID: <m0xWLgj-0003IpC@enterprise.cs.unm.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:40:51 EST." <199711132340.SAA02155@localhost.localdomain>
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> Hi, > I have had freebsd 2.2.2 runing fine on my machine with Accel X 3.1 for about > a month. > I decided to do a clean install of 2.2.5 since I did not have alot of stuff in > 2.2.2 setup yet. > I got through the install of both 2.2.5 nad my accel X 3.1 fine. > When I try to start x with the command startx it crashes and gives me two > error messages. > Failed to set default font path > Could not open default font 'fixed' > I have tried installing it several times and even installed everything once > with the thought that I might have been leaving something out. > It still did not work. > I went back and installed 2.2.2 again and x worked fine with Accel v3.1. > This is extremely frustrating. > Can anyone lend a hand? Hi, Rick, Yes, this drove me crazy, too. The scoop is this: Accelerated X doesn't support gzipped fonts (they do support compressed fonts). So what you gotta do is ungzip the fonts. Here's how: cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts gzip -d */*.gz Once you do that, I understand you can run mkfontdir in each directory. I didn't - I just edited fonts.dir in the directories 100dpi, 75dpi, and misc. Worked like a charm after this. By the way, this problem is noted at www.xigraphics.com in the Accelerated X FAQ. I believe they also have a downloadable script that'll do the above for you. > Thanks Alot > > -- > Rick Knebel > rknebel@mail.csrlink.net > > -- Chris Faehl (cfaehl@cs.unm.edu)
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