Re: X 4.0.1 what's the deal?

[Etienne Bernard <eb@pltplp.net>]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 09:22:48PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote:
> 
> > Woohoo, works!  Thank you! :)
> > 
> > Smells like a bug, indeed; the comment indicates that if the
> > connection to xfs fails, it _should_ fall back to the other
> > fonts listed.   If I had multiple machines, I would've
> > been able to trace it myself.  Have you filed a bug report
> > for this yet?
> 
> Keep in mind that this may not be trivial to reproduce.  I am not running
> xfs, and I have the default entries from dexter in my XF86Config-4:
> 
>         FontPath        "unix/:7100"                    # local font server
>         # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> 
> ...and my configuration works fine.  So in some circumstances, it DOES fall
> back without a problem.

I have the same problem with 2.4.0-test10 but not at all with 2.2.14.

Hopes this helps
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