TitCouille Mandriva escreveu: > Hello, > > I just want to rant about the "could not open default font 'fixed'", > the "fatal error" that made reinstall 2 times Mandriva Linux. I'm > probably just an idiot, for not being to configure things correctly, > but I read that it is "by far the most popular Frequently Asked > Question" so maybe there's a reason to that. The error is described in > http://www.x.org/wiki/FAQErrorMessages but that page was not as > usefully as it should be. There's many things described in there that > differ from what I see on my system : > > 1/ FAQ says that the log filename in "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" but mine is > "Xorg.9.log". What is the difference? > > 2/ FAQ says that the font location is specified through FontPath > lines. However, I have no such lines in my "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf". > In fact, I have no Files section at all in "xorg.conf". Reading my > log, I noticed that the fonts are loaded through a catalogue with > dirname "fontpath.d". Why is this not mentioned in the FAQ? > > First, I found out that the catalogue dirname is specified in > "/usr/share/X11/fs/config", where there's a line : > > catalogue = catalogue:/usr/share/fonts/fontpath.d > > However, when I went to that directory, I didn't understand anything: > how it works, what are the weird "pri=50", etc. > > Why not use a simple "FixedFont=exact_font_filepath" line? From the > little I understood, Xorg currently follows 100 of different symbolic > links and configuration lines to reach the real font filename. The > problem is that when one of those links or lines breaks, it seems > impossible for the average user to recover. > > 3/ I noticed in my log the following warning : > > `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/drakfont". > Entry deleted from font path. > (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/drakfont"). > > But I have to say the "mkfontdir" never outputs any message, Just a > simple "Successful" message would be enough for me. I type "mkfontdir > /usr/share/fonts/drakfont", no output. I type "mkfontdir --help", no > output. I type "mkfontdir", without arguments, in the needed > directory, no output. Of course, impossible to understand how > "mkfontdir" works, what it changes to the twisted system of links and > configuration lines. Just set --enable-builtin-font to configure. (Any complains to put this as default to X compilation?) Cheers, -- Tiago Vignatti C3SL - Centro de Computação Científica e Software Livre www.c3sl.ufpr.br _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg