Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:12:39 -0700 From: Neil Gruending <neil@gruending.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: neil@gruending.net Subject: gvim can't find a valid font Message-ID: <4681FFD7.60104@gruending.net>
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Hi,
I'm having a problem trying to get gvim 7.0.224 working. Every time I
try to start it I get the following error:
E665: Cannot start GUI, no valid font found|16H|8H|4H|31H
and I get the console vim instead. I think I've messed up my xorg fonts
somehow after upgrading to 7.2. I followed all of the steps in
/usr/ports/UPGRADING, but I didn't have the xorg metaport installed so I
installed it after upgrading. The first time I started it there was an
error message that said I needed to run a program in the fonts directory
(I forget which one), but I'm pretty sure I didn't fix the module path
before running the command. I'm using the terminal in Xfce 4.4.1 to try
and start gvim.
Here's part of my xorg.conf (now) in /etc/X11 that seems to be related
to fonts:
# **********************************************************************
# Module section -- this section is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.
# **********************************************************************
#
Section "Module"
# This loads the DBE extension module.
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
# This loads the font modules
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
# Load "xtt"
# This loads the GLX module
# Load "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
# Load "dri"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
# **********************************************************************
Section "Files"
# The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# RgbPath "/usr/local/share/X11/rgb"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
#
#
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
# FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
# FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
# FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
# FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"
# The module search path. The default path is shown here.
ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Neil
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