From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 7 21:14:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jester.ti.com (jester.ti.com [192.94.94.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C450C37B404 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 21:14:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from dlep6.itg.ti.com ([157.170.188.9]) by jester.ti.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g185EI906982 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 23:14:18 -0600 (CST) Received: from dlep6.itg.ti.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dlep6.itg.ti.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA08221 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 23:14:17 -0600 (CST) Received: from popsvr.india.ti.com (popsvr.india.ti.com [157.87.95.215]) by dlep6.itg.ti.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA08202 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 23:14:15 -0600 (CST) Received: from paspcsham (dhcp86222 [157.87.86.222]) by popsvr.india.ti.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA01271 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:44:14 +0530 (IST) Message-ID: <002a01c1b060$eeedb7b0$de56579d@india.ti.com> From: "Gautham Ganapathy" To: "FreeBSD Questions @ FreeBSD.org" References: <003501c1b056$0374d930$de56579d@india.ti.com> Subject: Re: bochs vga font not detected by X Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:54:51 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 thanx, i'll try it out ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Giesen" To: Cc: "Gautham Ganapathy" Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 10:06 AM Subject: Re: bochs vga font not detected by X > 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. > > This, I believe, is the problem. I believe the fonts.dir file in > the directory where the font file resides (.../misc, in this case) > needs to have a line for each font that you have in that file. The > format of the file is such that each line contains two fields: first, > the file name containing the font and, second, the font name. You > will need a line for each font in your vga.pcf file. (Or, perhaps > just a line for each font that you wish to _use_ from that file...) > If you look at the file, its format should become obvious to you. > Finally, make sure that the first line of fonts.dir reflects the > total number of fonts listed within. (So, if it starts out with 346 > and you add 3 fonts, change the first line to read "349.") > Hope this helps. > Bob > > > > 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 > > > -- > "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his > clients to plant vines." -- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message