From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 1 19:56:26 2002 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 B89E437B401 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 19:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dc-mx08.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx08.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C99743E6A for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 19:56:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phbrown@charter.net) Received: from [66.214.75.207] (HELO charter.net) by dc-mx08.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP id 72414005; Thu, 01 Aug 2002 22:56:00 -0400 Message-ID: <3D49F4C0.AC47B146@charter.net> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 19:56:00 -0700 From: Parker Brown X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kyle Butt Cc: BSDQuestions Subject: [Fwd: [Fwd: startx refuses to open *some* font files]] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------194B34CEB9594375FBFA49F7" 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 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------194B34CEB9594375FBFA49F7 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------07FC388F1A72C21CE8A87350" --------------07FC388F1A72C21CE8A87350 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Check out the error messages (see attachment). They've gotta be relevant. -- Pb --------------07FC388F1A72C21CE8A87350 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Check out the error messages (see attachment).  They've gotta be relevant.
 
  
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  --------------07FC388F1A72C21CE8A87350-- --------------194B34CEB9594375FBFA49F7 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Message-ID: <3D49EE63.A365D1DA@charter.net> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 19:28:51 -0700 From: Parker Brown X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kyle Butt CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: startx refuses to open *some* font files] References: <3D49A5AB.50A4337B@charter.net> <20020801180928.A3298@kylebutt.dorms.usu.edu> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------9872C4E835133ED1F68A1D5E" --------------9872C4E835133ED1F68A1D5E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit OK, did that. Those three files *still* seem to be unusable to X11, but it's interesting that a new (with today's date) font.dir appeared in them, whereas a font.dir already existed in the other files. This has to be relavent. By the way, I've tried adding a .xftconfig file and maybe a couple of other things. I get the feeling that using startx (via the "wrapper") to start X11V6 v4, and not using xdm might figure into my problem. But I haven't been successful using xdm yet. Pb Kyle Butt wrote: > On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:18:35PM -0700, Parker Brown wrote: > > > > > > -- > > Pb > > > > > > > X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > > Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 13:44:18 -0700 > > From: Parker Brown > > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) > > X-Accept-Language: en > > To: BSDQuestions > > Subject: startx refuses to open *some* font files > > > > FreeBSD 4.6 with X11 v4. Trying to get some easily readable fonts on > > X11, particularly on netscape. I installed the urwfonts from x11-fonts > > > > ports, but got the unable to open display "" when I ran xset, so I > > > > edited /etc/X11/XF86Config to include an entry for .../fonts/URW. Still > > > > no apparent difference in appearance, but I noticed that startx pumps > > out messages like startx: could not init font path element > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW. The same messages appear regarding > > ../fonts/Type1 and ../fonts/Speedo. > > > > X11 has no problem with any other fonts listed in /etc/X11/XF86Config. > > All fonts listed in the config file have entries in > > /usr/X11R6/lib/x11/fonts, but apparently URW, Type1 and Speedo are > > "not welcome" to the tyrant X11. > > > > Haven't figured out xdm yet, so I installed a "wrapper" and use startx. > > > > Can anybody help me figure this one out? I've gone about as far as I > > can > > with this one. > > > > > > -- > > Pb > > > > > > try mkfontdir in the failing directories -- Pb --------------9872C4E835133ED1F68A1D5E Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit OK, did that.  Those three files *still* seem to be unusable to X11, but it's interesting that a new (with today's date) font.dir appeared in them, whereas a font.dir already existed in the other files.  This has to be relavent.
By the way, I've tried adding a    .xftconfig  file and maybe a couple of other things.  I get the feeling that using  startx (via the "wrapper") to start X11V6 v4, and not using    xdm   might figure into my problem.  But I haven't been successful using xdm yet.
 
Pb
 
 

Kyle Butt wrote:

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:18:35PM -0700, Parker Brown wrote:
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>
> --
> Pb
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> X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 13:44:18 -0700
> From: Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net>
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386)
> X-Accept-Language: en
> To: BSDQuestions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Subject: startx  refuses to open *some* font files
>
> FreeBSD 4.6 with X11 v4.  Trying to get some easily readable fonts on
> X11,  particularly on netscape.  I installed the urwfonts from x11-fonts
>
> ports, but got the     unable to open display ""   when I ran xset, so I
>
> edited /etc/X11/XF86Config to include an entry for .../fonts/URW.  Still
>
> no apparent difference in appearance, but I noticed that startx pumps
> out messages like     startx:  could not init font path element
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW.   The same messages appear regarding
> ../fonts/Type1  and ../fonts/Speedo.
>
> X11 has no problem with any other fonts listed in  /etc/X11/XF86Config.
> All fonts listed in the config file have entries in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/x11/fonts,  but apparently URW, Type1 and Speedo are
> "not welcome" to the tyrant X11.
>
> Haven't figured out xdm yet, so I installed a "wrapper" and use startx.
>
> Can anybody help me figure this one out?  I've gone about as far as I
> can
> with this one.
>
>
> --
> Pb
>
>

try mkfontdir in the failing directories

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  --------------9872C4E835133ED1F68A1D5E-- --------------194B34CEB9594375FBFA49F7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="logfilex" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="logfilex" Script started on Thu Aug 1 17:37:31 2002 X Error of failed request: 86 Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath) Serial number of failed request: 7 Current serial number in output stream: 9 Script done on Thu Aug 1 17:37:31 2002 --------------194B34CEB9594375FBFA49F7-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message