Dear X gurus!,
I'm failing to get a "MS-DOS" emulating font (vga.pcf or vga11x19.bdf,
vga11x19.pcf) to work. The fonts worked on the previous box, so should be ok.
Placing them into the /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc/ fontpath, mkfontdir, and a xset
fp rehash, xfs restart, did the job before.
Now with the new installation (one FC6 and also an FC4 box) I cannot figure out
why the fonts no longer work. As far as I could find out xfs should be
technically able to "serve" them.
On the current boxes (please find the details below) I get:
xterm -fn vga
Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
xterm: unable to open font "vga", trying "fixed"....
The "vga" font obviously is missing. But I cannot figure out why, please find
the details below. They seem correct as far as I understand. There also is no
error message from xfs on loading the vga.pcf font.
What could be the problem here? I really ran out of ideas and information-input
sources. Any pointer, hints or ideas what to check or where to search would be
rof great help.
Thank for insight,
Georg
various details follow:
xlsfonts
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
6x13
cursor
fixed
chkfontpath --list
Current directories in font path:
1: /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
2: /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
less /etc/X11/fs/config
...
catalogue = /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
xterm -v
XTerm(215)
xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.2-3.1
X Window System Version 7.1.1
Release Date: 12 May 2006
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.9-34.ELsmp i686 Red Hat, Inc.
Current Operating System: Linux chiligreen 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 #1 SMP Fri Nov 10
12:36:14 EST 2006 i686Build Date: 01 December 2006
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.1.1-47.2.fc6
...
(==) FontPath set to:
unix/:7100,
