Re: XFree / Font error

[Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

* Andy Wettstein (awettste@cait.org) [001228 11:25]:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 10:22:18PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > Running Debian Woody and XFree86 v4.0.1 and trying to get TrueType fonts
> > under X. I've followed the instructions fully, I believe, but still no
> > TT fonts. I finally ran across this error:
> > 
> > Could not init font path element unix/:7101, removing from list!
> > 
> > in /var/log/xdm.log.
> > 
> > Any ideas how to fix this ?? xfs and xfstt are both running, although I
> > understand it's not necessary with XFree v4.x. 
> 
> You don't use xfstt for xfree4 you need to put this line
> Load    "freetype"
> in your module section of your XF86Config-4
> 
> Then you need to get some treutype fonts and put them in a directory.
> I use /usr/share/fonts/truetype.  Then you need to apt-get fttools,
> and run mkttfdir in that directory.  After that put the font path
> in your XF86Config-4, too.  like so:
> FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"

Thank you ! It's working now ! ;-) I've been trying and trying different things to get this to work... just about everything I've read is out-of-date.

Regards
Hall Stevenson