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Date:      Tue, 22 May 2007 11:20:14 +0800
From:      "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com>
To:        "Dejan Lesjak" <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
Cc:        x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: x11-servers/xorg-vfbserver requires fonts
Message-ID:  <6eb82e0705212020m3cb39e06n41a18aae82bd4438@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200705201957.27114.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
References:  <6eb82e0705201034u1987e2bbr3a791b08957186e2@mail.gmail.com> <200705201957.27114.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>

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On 5/21/07, Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> wrote:
> On Sunday 20 May 2007 19:34:51 Rong-en Fan wrote:
> > It requires some x fonts installed, not just the library.
> > Otherwise, it won't start and complains can not find
> > the 'fixed' font.
>
> This has always been the case (if you don't install xorg metaport). You can
> either provide the font via font server or install it locally. The new thing
> is that apart from the actual x11-fonts/font-misc-misc you need also
> x11-fonts/font-alias installed for x server to find 'fixed' font.

Now I remembered why I install xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps
package in xorg 6.9. I suggest we install this either as default
or put an OPTIONS, so the problem can be avoided.

Thanks,
Rong-En Fan

>
> Dejan
>



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