From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 21 17:18:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7734237B401 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:18:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E26C43F3F for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:18:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 115D251A6B; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:48:13 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:48:13 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Charlie Clark Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Missing X fonts (was: in regrade to yr Sony LPt) Message-ID: <20030322011813.GA16081@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030317130504.964.6@wonderland.1047891566.fake> <20030317132446.42C5750ADC@server2.fastmail.fm> <20030317154156.2317.14@wonderland.1047891566.fake> <20030318001043.GO9422@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030318105358.1090.2@wonderland.1047977605.fake> <20030319000608.GC84879@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030321143648.2639.4@wonderland.1048243135.fake> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030321143648.2639.4@wonderland.1048243135.fake> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 21 March 2003 at 14:36:48 +0100, Charlie Clark wrote: > > On 2003-03-19 at 01:06:08 [+0100], Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> Well, not this of course. >> >>> mm, I don't seem to have any fonts folder :-( >>> How do I install them after the event with Sysinstall? >> >> I don't think you do. You install the entire X11. It would be a good >> idea to rename /usr/X11R6 to /usr/X11R6-old and try again. > > I'll try that but I've just seen that I've got a load of X11 stuff in > /usr/ports. And sysinstall seems to think that's right. There has to be something wrong if you don't have a fonts directory. >>> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config" >> >> Where did you get this X11 configuration file from? Is it old? Check >> the date with ls -l. Nowadays the config file gets put in >> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config, though it's possible the version you're >> installing doesn't. Check for that file too, though. > > The config file isn't old. It's based on one used for virtually the same > laptop on Debian. It's conceivable that you have incorrect paths in the config file. Try creating one with X -configure. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+e7nVIubykFB6QiMRAgTGAJ0fAIlqnir/hNDhmFBWLnlhKp59/QCfXrKE fegd8+3sY1SdXTvk2KvxR1I= =8EQC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message