From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 21 15:39:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smartie.braingarage.com (m206-51.dsl.tsoft.com [198.144.206.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1031437BD2F for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:39:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@braingarage.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by smartie.braingarage.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA01967; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:39:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@braingarage.com) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:39:09 -0800 (PST) From: robert bowen Message-Id: <200003212339.PAA01967@smartie.braingarage.com> X-Authentication-Warning: smartie.braingarage.com: nobody set sender to robert@braingarage.com using -f To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: robert@braingarage.com Cc: kunze@CS.ColoState.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP3 Imap webMail Program 2.0.11 Subject: RE: OT: XFree 4.0 and TrueType fonts Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just wrestled with this problem myself. There are a few steps to go through to get it working. 1. Get fonts form a M$ system and setup the fonts.dir with ttmkfdir (worked for me) 2. Double-check that paths are correct in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/conf file. make sure they point to your new TrueType directories 3. Comment out font paths in /etc/X11/XF86Config file, except for one that reads unix/:7100 4. get rc.local to start /usr/X11R6/bin/xfs if you are using xdm or start it by hand as root before you startx. Good luck - This works for me and I now have beautiful fonts on Netscape and other apps. Robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message