We've had a problem on Slackware Linux 8.1 with AbiWord 1.0.1 and XFree86 4.2.0. The problem is that on some systems (our video hardware differs with the age of the machine) we see the message
AbiWord could not load the following font or fontset from the X Window System display server, [-*-Times New Roman-regular-r-*-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-*] Though I wonder about the spaces in the typeface name, a purported explanation for and solution of this bug is given at: http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/UnixFaqAbiWordCouldNotLoadTimesNewRoman but, since we don't use xfs(1), I couldn't see that adding /usr/share/abisource/fonts to the list of font directories in /etc/X11/fs/config would do any good. :-) I used xset(1) on my machine (where AbiWord works) and also on one of the other Linux PCs (where AbiWord fails as above). It works fine on my PC, but on the other PC I get: $ xset +fp /usr/share/abisuite/fonts/ X Error of failed request: 86 Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath) Serial number of failed request: 8 Current serial number in output stream: 10 I tried using xfd(1) on one of the typefaces listed in the fonts.dir file in /usr/share/abisuite/fonts/. It works on my PC but on the other PC I get: $ xfd -fn -ZZ_AbiWord-Arial-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 Warning: Cannot convert string "-ZZ_AbiWord-Arial-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct xfd: no font to display The font name looks fine to me. Has anyone seen this (these?) problem(s)? I've looked everywhere I can think of (XFree86 web site, X Protocol Reference Manual Volume Zero, Google) for a list of XFree86 error codes - just what is `XError ... 86'? Incidentally, I can't find mention on the current XFree86 mailing list description page (http://www.xfree86.org/mailman/listinfo) of any mailing list archives. I googled to find a page of archives of fonts - see http://devel.xfree86.org/archives/fonts/ - which stops in 2000. (It's not searchable, either!) Any idea why this list's archives are not publicised any more? -- John A. Murdie Experimental Officer (Software) Department of Computer Science University of York England _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
