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Date:      Sun, 25 Nov 2001 14:23:49 -0800
From:      chip <chip@wiegand.org>
To:        "questions - freebsd" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   XF86-4 font problem prevents X from starting - webfonts package
Message-ID:  <200111251424415.SM03488@there>

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I just got another machine up and running FBSD4.4 and installed the lates=
t=20
Xfree86 from sysinstall and it was working just great. I then added some=20
other fonts in the ports and added the necessary lines to the XF86Config=20
file. I discovered that the webfonts package is breaking X. If I leave it=
 in=20
like shown below then I get this message:

failed to set font path: (all the font paths listed)
fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

But if I comment it out then X starts just fine. I thought maybe there wa=
s a=20
limited number of fontpath lines, so I tried by commenting out anthere li=
ne=20
and uncommenting webfonts, but it still broke X. Seems webfonts break X.=20
Anyone else seen this problem?

I have 20 fontpath lines.

Section "Files"
   RgbPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/jmk"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/non-cjk"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/nucleus"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts"
EndSection

I noticed that the webfonts directory contains ttf fonts. Can I just copy=
=20
these to the TrueType fonts directory?

--
Chip


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