Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 21:15:33 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Adam=20Nealis?= <adamnealis@yahoo.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: XFree86-4.1.0_4 and fonts Message-ID: <20010706201533.15693.qmail@web5502.mail.yahoo.com>
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I often start to pen e-mails like this to the list, only to find that the act of writing out the problem in what I hope is a clear way leads me to solve the problem. Not this time! I have a mental block when it come to X, and also when it comes to fonts. Despite reading /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.fonts nad the mkfontdir(1) man page I am none the wiser. I am trying to find out how to eliminate the messages (below) that I get when I start X. Also, the last one is preventing me from trying out AbiWord. I'm on 'BSD 4.3-RELEASE, and I tested my new ADSL link by downloading and installing the current XFree86 sources - 4.1.0_4. These are the error messages recorded in /var/log/XFree86.0.log: Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, \ removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, \ removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW/, \ removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts, \ removing from list! I have fonts.dir and fonts.scale files (confusingly called "directories"). The mkfontdir man page and README.fonts ramble on about using the -e flag but these docs do not make sense to me. for example, README.font says: $ cd /usr/local/share/fonts/Type1 $ mkfontdir -e /usr/X11R6/lib/font/encodings which I dutifully did, only to create a file of exactly 0 bytes called /usr/X11R6/lib/font/encodings/fonts.dir So what painfully obvious thing am I doing wrong? ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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