Re: could not open default font 'fixed'
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 06:04:29AM -0500, sam th wrote:
>
> There are no font paths in that config file, but according to the man
> page, it reads the defaults anyway, and they are correct.
For me, the defaults work only so long as I make sure that neither the
freefont package nor the sharefont package is installed.
> I have installed the 2v13 .debs for xfonts-base, -scalable, -75dpi and -
> -100dpi. I have tried this with and without xfs running.
Even with the freefont package installed, my X server comes up properly if
I list the font paths explicitly. In order to make use of all of the
fonts, I also need to load the appropriate modules. Here is an excerpt
from my /etc/X11/XF86Config. Note that the order of the lines in the
"Files" section is important. By placing the 100dpi line before the 75dpi
line, I get generally bigger fonts; I did this because some of the
unadjustable fonts in netscape, etc. appear nicely larger.
Note, too, the first three lines of the "Module" section.
----------begin excerpt from /etc/X11/XF86Config----------
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "speedo"
Load "extmod"
Load "xie"
Load "pex5"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
EndSection
----------end excerpt from /etc/X11/XF86Config----------
----------some font packages installed on my system------------------------
ii freefont 0.10-8 Freeware font selection for X11
ii xfonts-100dpi 4.0.1-0phase2v13 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi 4.0.1-0phase2v13 75 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-base 4.0.1-0phase2v13 standard fonts for X
ii xfonts-cyrillic 4.0.1-0phase2v13 Cyrillic fonts for X
ii xfonts-intl-phonetic 1.1-9 International fonts for X -- Ph
ii xfonts-jmk 3.0-2 James M. Knoble's character-cel
ii xfonts-pex 4.0.1-0phase2v13 fonts for minimal PEX support i
ii xfonts-scalable 4.0.1-0phase2v13 scalable fonts for X
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Thomas E. Vaughan <thomas.vaughan@nssl.noaa.gov>
CIMMS/NSSL, Norman, OK, USA
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