Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:41:28 -0700 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: Christopher Chin <cchin@ack.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fonts.alias part of xorg-server installation? Message-ID: <1125081688.1802.1.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <20050826110038.X35293@malcolm.berkeley.edu> References: <20050826110038.X35293@malcolm.berkeley.edu>
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--=-/33lAS0tS2TmdQ9kk4Pn Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 11:04 -0700, Christopher Chin wrote: > Howdy.... >=20 > Starting from scrtach because of a dead hard drive, and I=20 > just installed 6.8.2 (running FreeBSD 5.4-rel, I used=20 > portinstall to add xorg-server-6.8.2_3). >=20 > I can't start the server b/c of the popular "could not > open default font 'fixed'". >=20 > I understand that my fonts/misc/fonts.alias is missing > but I'd like to know if it's part of the release, or if > I'm *supposed* to add this by hand? I hate hacking this > early in the revival process. >=20 > I figured it should be part of the release, and even > just reinstalled ('portupgrade -R -f xorg-server') > but still no fonts.alias file.... >=20 > Is there another port/package I should be adding? If you want to run Xorg without knowing exactly what set of pieces you need, install the "xorg" package. You need more than just a server for an X setup. Notably, for the font "fixed" issue, you need xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps. --=20 Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org --=-/33lAS0tS2TmdQ9kk4Pn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDD2JYHUdvYGzw6vcRAiL3AJ0XJt1YVkmTmn6aRlZUG/FLQIfb2ACdE0ra XOdq2yA9K+8ubn9hJf9Kwus= =6bQQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-/33lAS0tS2TmdQ9kk4Pn--
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