From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 6 14:11:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06A2B37B405 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 14:11:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parv@worldnet.att.net) Received: from worldnet.att.net ([32.100.199.130]) by mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010706211106.PLBU3208.mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net@worldnet.att.net>; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 21:11:06 +0000 Received: by worldnet.att.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 82C6150D5F; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 17:14:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 17:14:58 -0400 From: parv To: Adam Nealis Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86-4.1.0_4 and fonts Message-ID: <20010706171458.A2509@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Adam Nealis , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20010706201533.15693.qmail@web5502.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010706201533.15693.qmail@web5502.mail.yahoo.com>; from adamnealis@yahoo.co.uk on Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:15:33PM +0100 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 Jul 06 16:43, i got this from Adam... > ... > I'm on 'BSD 4.3-RELEASE, and I tested my new ADSL link by > downloading and installing the current XFree86 sources - 4.1.0_4. > These are the error messages recorded in /var/log/XFree86.0.log: > > Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, \ > removing from list! > Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, \ > removing from list! > Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW/, \ > removing from list! > Could not init font path element /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts, \ > removing from list! this implies that you have those font directories in your "FontPath" in "XF86Config" file, but directories don't actually exist. that or, you don't have "fonts.dir" of in those directories. > > I have fonts.dir and fonts.scale files (confusingly called > "directories"). The mkfontdir man page and README.fonts ramble > on about using the -e flag but these docs do not make sense to > me. before you try again, just make sure that directory names are correct, and 'fonts.dir' has non-zero size. i have never tried using -e option. > for example, README.font says: > > $ cd /usr/local/share/fonts/Type1 > $ mkfontdir -e /usr/X11R6/lib/font/encodings > > which I dutifully did, only to create a file of exactly 0 bytes > called /usr/X11R6/lib/font/encodings/fonts.dir > ... mkfontdir doesn't exactly work w/ type1 and tt fonts as you noticed. you may wan to try ttmkfdir in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/ttmkfdir for truetype fonts, and type1inst in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/p5-type1inst for type 1 ps fonts. i hope if i am wrong, somebody will correct me. -- so, do you like word games or scrabble? - parv To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message