Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:41:28 -0700 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: Christopher Chin <cchin@ack.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fonts.alias part of xorg-server installation? Message-ID: <1125081688.1802.1.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <20050826110038.X35293@malcolm.berkeley.edu> References: <20050826110038.X35293@malcolm.berkeley.edu>
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On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 11:04 -0700, Christopher Chin wrote:
> Howdy....
>
> Starting from scrtach because of a dead hard drive, and I
> just installed 6.8.2 (running FreeBSD 5.4-rel, I used
> portinstall to add xorg-server-6.8.2_3).
>
> I can't start the server b/c of the popular "could not
> open default font 'fixed'".
>
> I understand that my fonts/misc/fonts.alias is missing
> but I'd like to know if it's part of the release, or if
> I'm *supposed* to add this by hand? I hate hacking this
> early in the revival process.
>
> I figured it should be part of the release, and even
> just reinstalled ('portupgrade -R -f xorg-server')
> but still no fonts.alias file....
>
> Is there another port/package I should be adding?
If you want to run Xorg without knowing exactly what set of pieces you
need, install the "xorg" package. You need more than just a server for
an X setup. Notably, for the font "fixed" issue, you need
xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps.
--
Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org
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