From: ohm u. <oun...@ya...> - 2006-03-31 15:40:26
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Hi everyone, Sorry to bring up an old subject, but I could not find any specific information regarding how to get tinyX fonts up and running. I saw that all I have to do is copy fonts, Bhaskar used the bitstream-vera fonts, over to the directorys that Xfbdev complains about, i.e.: Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, removing from list! So I went into my /usr/share/fonts directories and copied the contents of my bitstream-vera folder into the above-mentioned directories (I had to mkdir them on the gumstix)...Same errors A little more research into the "could not init font path element" error landed me on a tidbit about a "font.dir" file. Questions: 1. What files do I need to copy over to the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/... directories? Are they all the same files? 2. Do I need the font.dir file? What does the computer expect to see in this file? As always, Thanks! Ohm. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com |
From: Alexandre P. N. <al...@om...> - 2006-03-31 16:34:23
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ohm unmongkolthavong escreveu: >Hi everyone, > >Sorry to bring up an old subject, but I could not find >any specific information regarding how to get tinyX >fonts up and running. > >I saw that all I have to do is copy fonts, Bhaskar >used the bitstream-vera fonts, over to the directorys >that Xfbdev complains about, i.e.: > >Could not init font path element >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, removing from list! >Could not init font path element >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, removing from list! >Could not init font path element >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, removing from list! > >So I went into my /usr/share/fonts directories and >copied the contents of my bitstream-vera folder into >the above-mentioned directories (I had to mkdir them >on the gumstix)...Same errors > >A little more research into the "could not init font >path element" error landed me on a tidbit about a >"font.dir" file. > >Questions: >1. What files do I need to copy over to the >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/... directories? Are they all >the same files? >2. Do I need the font.dir file? What does the computer >expect to see in this file? > >As always, Thanks! >Ohm. > > > Hi Ohm! I know nothing about tinyX specifics, but on regular X11R6, you need a fonts.dir file to actually list the fonts. It's a facility that allows you to select some subset from the fonts directory without actually removing those you don't want in. If that file is all that is missing on the directory, you should be able to create by entering the directory and calling mkfontdir there, assuming it was compiled. If you lack this file, you can do this on a host unix computer and copy the same files to the dir on gumstix, there's nothing machine-dependent in there, it should work. Good luck! Alexandre |