From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 7 20:44: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F12E937B420 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 20:43:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-63.215.119.124.dial1.chicago1.level3.net ([63.215.119.124] helo=there) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Z2tC-0006RB-00; Thu, 07 Feb 2002 20:43:58 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bob Giesen To: "Gautham Ganapathy" , FreeBSD questions Subject: Re2: bochs vga font not detected by X Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 22:43:50 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <003501c1b056$0374d930$de56579d@india.ti.com> In-Reply-To: <003501c1b056$0374d930$de56579d@india.ti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 07 February 2002 10:06 pm, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: > Hi. > > I have a font file vga.pcf (came along with bochs) that is in the > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc directory. However, it is not being > detected. The are no entries for it in the fonts.alias and > fonts.dir files. I have tried gzipping the file like the others and > adding a line in the fonts.* files with the text 'vga' but it > doesn't seem to work. How do I get X to detect this font ? > > Thanx and Regards > Gautham Almost forgot to mention there's the easy way -- use mkfontdir. Check the man page for details. Cheers, Bob -- "You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do." -- Liz Smith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message