On 4/25/05, Donal Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First of all, I think I'm the fatality here, not the package. I'm
> getting the same problem with Xorg 6.8.2 over and over again. My
> xorg.conf look ok, and I have loaded the freefonts ttf fonts into the
> /TTF directory in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
>
> I went back to the X-Windows System Components page to make sure I'd
> installed these fonts properly. I did the sed command at the bottom of
> the page just in case the locale was not ISO-8859-1
>
> sed -i 's,iso8859-1\( \|$\),iso8859-[X]\1,g' \
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{75dpi,100dpi,misc}/fonts.alias
>
> The errors I'm getting are
>
> Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved (I have dri enabled
> in xorg.conf)
>
> Fatal server Error - could not open default font 'fixed'
> This is the recurring error. I have not installed corefonts. Do I need
> the TWO of these fonts packages, or will freefonts do, as that's what I
> already have?
>
> A startx command will now make the screen go black and flicker
> periodically, and then output these messages.
>
> Does anyone know what I might do to get back to a somewhat ok X I had
> earlier, as the only change I made was the sed comand, and I even redone
> xorgconfig ??
Donal, I'm calling you names in the back of my mind. You're in
Ireland, like me. iso8859-1 is fine! Where is your apartment - Mars?
;-). You're in 'Stab City' aren't you? Limerick? :-).
Check your locale, (/etc/environment). move those files sideways, use
mkfontdir and/or fix the iso8859 expression in the file.
Where is fontconfig in all of this anyhow? This was where (yet
another) program was added in to help us all make a mess of our fonts.
You can't get out of this mess without approaching that, and asking it
to fix things.
the sed command I would run is to look at what you have in the fonts
files now ('?' below) and then run
sed 's/iso8859-?/iso8859-1/' <filenames>
--
All the Best
Declan.
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