From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 2 6:34:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from uranus.interscope.ro (ns.interscope.ro [193.226.188.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3FC37B8E3 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 06:34:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from KoronkaS@interscope.ro) Received: by URANUS with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:34:30 +0300 Message-ID: From: Stefan KORONKA To: FreeBSD-newbies@FreeBSD.org Cc: 'David Calkins' Subject: RE: update to odd video problems issue Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:34:28 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > From: David Calkins [mailto:david_calkins@hotmail.com] > Subject: update to odd video problems issue > > > I previously wrote to this list and reported that I > experienced strange > video problems after installing FreeBSD v4.0. I have done some more > research, and I *think* the problem is not with the video. > > Rather, I think that the fonts are not properly installed. I > received an > error message telling me to run makefontdir, and that the > fonts were not > properly installed/configured. > > The directory it was referring to (.../fonts) is completely > empty. When I > installed I chose the All option which selected everything. > > Does anyone know of problems with the installer that would > prevent fonts > from being properly installed? Any ideas how to reinstall the fonts? as root, run /stand/sysinstall go to custom/distribution/custom/xfree86/fonts select averything you need (including the font server) go back to custom, and choose commit now you should have the fonts installed Stefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message