[wellylug] Re: Font problems

[Adam Bogacki]

  Thanks,

... more or less following your instructions ...
   
Tux:# find -name xlsfonts -print
./home/cyberia/X11R6/bin/xlsfonts
./usr/X11R6/bin/xlsfonts

Tux:/usr/X11R6/bin# vi xlsfonts

[a lot of '@' characters in blue, presumably denoting binaries and ...]

"xlsfonts" [Incomplete last line} 55lines, 16008 characters

grepping it gave me nothing [... nix ... nada ...]

Tux:/usr/X11R6/bin# grep -i helvetica xlsfonts
[nothing]
Tux:/usr/X11R6/bin# grep  -i fixed xlsfonts

Re. the 'Files' section of my XF86Config-4 see below ...

> Section "Files"
>         FontPath        "unix/:7100"                    # local font 
> server
>         # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
> EndSection

I am not sure how to determine which modules are being loaded ...

~# chkfontpath -l
~# chkfontpath: command not found

Tux:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi# ls
... give me *heaps* of fonts including helvetica and courier
Tux:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts# ls
100dpi 75dpi Speedo Type1 encodings fonts.cache-1
misc util

... therefore there are font files in these directories.

Finally, my bootlog includes ...

> Thu Sep 18 02:32:08 2003: ^[]RSetting up general console font... 
> findfont: No such file or directory
> Thu Sep 18 02:32:08 2003: Cannot open font file `iso15-16'.
> Thu Sep 18 02:32:08 2003:  failed.
> Thu Sep 18 02:32:08 2003: Setting up per-VC fonts: /dev/tty1, 
> findfont: No such file or directory
> Thu Sep 18 02:32:08 2003: Cannot open font file `iso15-16'.
> Thu Sep 18 02:32:08 2003: /dev/tty10, findfont: No such file or directory
> Thu Sep 18 02:32:08 2003: Cannot open font file `iso15-16'.
> Thu Sep 18 02:32:08 2003: /dev/tty11, findfont: No such file or directory
> Thu Sep 18 02:32:08 2003: Cannot open font file `iso15-16'.

.. and so on through all  /dev/tty*

"Just install more fonts" as one poster suggested is not the answer.

I await your advice.

Cheers,

Adam Bogacki,
afb at paradise.net.nz