Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 01:54:15 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley <bsampley@best.com> To: Strobel <100730.3706@compuserve.com> Cc: FreeBSD <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: X-Server under FreeBSD2.2.5 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980102013957.22317G-100000@bsampley.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <199801011930_MC2-2DBD-6979@compuserve.com>
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I had this same problem. I couldn't find the reply from XI so I searched the archives (in -current). For XIGv3.1 here's their solution (BTW, I would ignore the recomendation to rm font.alias): Hello Burton (and FreeBSD-current readers), The problem you are seeing is due to XF86 shipping their fonts in gzipped format. The X server does not know how to uncompress them. This is not of course something that we could know, since v3.1 shipped well before the XF86 release. And it is not something seen when running with AcceleratedX's CDE product, since we ship our own X libs and fonts with this. The solution: unix-prompt> cd /path/to/fonts unix-prompt> rm fonts.dir fonts.alias fonts.scale (note: not all files are necessarily present in each dir) unix-prompt> gzip -d * unix-prompt> compress * unix-prompt> mkfontdir Repeat for each font directory you are going to use - these are listed in the /etc/Xaccel.ini file... NOTE: This was dated around Jun 1997. Hope this helps. - burton - --------------- Burton Sampley bsampley@best.com or bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu PGP key available at http://www.best.com/~bsampley/pgp.html On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Strobel wrote: > Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 19:27:23 -0500 > From: Strobel <100730.3706@compuserve.com> > To: FreeBSD <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Subject: X-Server under FreeBSD2.2.5 > > Hi, > i want to run the FreeBSD 2.2.5 System, but there is a problem with the > Accelerated X-Server V2.1 i am using. The raw installation works fine, but > when i start the X-Server in test mode with: > /usr/X11R6/bin/Xaccel > i got the following error message: > > PCI (#1/1, 8000 000c) > Matrox,16: 2064,TVP3026 (8192k, @e2000000, [0,000 - 220,000Mhz]) > failed to set default font path 'here comes the default font path ....' > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > > On my old FreeBSD 2.1.5 everthing work fine. Can somebody help me with this > problem? > By the way, the same error occurs under FreeBSD 3.0 Snapshot. > > Thanks > > Andreas >
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