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Date:      Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:54:51 +0530
From:      "Gautham Ganapathy" <xgautham@ti.com>
To:        "FreeBSD Questions @ FreeBSD.org" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bochs vga font not detected by X
Message-ID:  <002a01c1b060$eeedb7b0$de56579d@india.ti.com>
References:  <003501c1b056$0374d930$de56579d@india.ti.com> <E16Z2li-0006C8-00@hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net>

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thanx, i'll try it out

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Giesen" <BobGiesen@earthlink.net>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc: "Gautham Ganapathy" <gauthamg123list@yahoo.com>
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
> 
> 
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