FontStruct problem
I saw one question on this in the archives, but I didn't see an answer, so I'll ask it again. I have one working debian X installation and one not working installation (The one that works is 2.1, the one that doesn't is 2.1r3, both plain vanilla). Unfortunately the one that doesn't work is the one I need to work. Obviously, I fouled up my new installation, but I can't figure out where. Netscape and xemacs give the following errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ netscape [1] 2019 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Warning: Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-medium-o-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string -adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct Note: If I edit my font preferences in Netscape, I only have a choice of three: clean (Schumacher), fixed (misc), fixed (Sony). I get the same sort of error with xemacs: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xemacs [1] 2268 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Warning: Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct Thinking this my be a fontserver problem, I've check the following: I think this means my X font server is running: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps waux | grep xfs root 160 0.0 0.0 157612 ? S Oct 20 0:00 (xfs) This is /etc/X11/xfs/config: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs$ more /etc/X11/xfs/config # /etc/X11/xfs/config # # X font server configuration file # allow a maximum of 10 clients to connect to this font server client-limit = 10 # when a font server reaches its limit, start up a new one clone-self = on # log errors using syslog use-syslog = on # paths to search for fonts catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr /X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/f onts/100dpi/ # in decipoints default-point-size = 120 # x1,y1,x2,y2,... default-resolutions = 75,75,100,100 The font directories listed above look OK--i.e., mkfontdir has been run in all of them. I see a fonts.dir, et al file in each. Any idea why I'm experiencing such a shortage of fonts--I have oodles of them installed. TIA, Kevin
Re: How to get slrn colored in xterm ?
I too faced this situation when using a lynx browser with slang compiled in on my (Red Hat 4.2) system. The supposedly color xterm wasn't, so I got around that by running lynx from an rxvt. There it looks like it's supposed to (I think) hth kevin Peter Prohaska wrote: hi all, I´m using slrn for reading news and do NOT want to change the app ;) Now, when starting slrn from within the standard linux terminal, I get that nifty color-spreading frontend. But when started in an xterm, it looks sad monochrome. Does anyone know if can get colors in xterms, too -- and how? thanx, peter. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XWindows
Check in your X11 font directories. Are the fonts compressed or gzipped (*.Z or *.gz)? Depending on the vintage of your server, it may be expecting *.Z fonts. (XFree 3.3 and commercial ones earlier than August of this year or so.) You can work around by ungzipping them and then compressing them if this is your problem. Else I'd suspect a misconfigured fontserver if you'r using one of those. hth .kevin Jeremy Blonde wrote: Well, I was able to get my modem working just fine. Thanks for all the help everyone provided. But now I've got another problem. When I start xwindows (using startx) it begins to load and then quits saying it couldn't load fonts and connect to the unix server. I'll include the error messages in an email later so that you can see what I'm saying. As before, if anyone has found a article that has worked for them, could you point me to it? (I've read the ones on the debian.org and linux.org) Or if you know what's happening, I'd appreciate your help. Thanks in advance, Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cardina.net/~jeremy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3C509 acting strangely on Win95/Debian dual boot system
Bruce, Tried your suggestion. Didn't work. But let me clarify if I understood what you meant. At the lilo prompt, I'd type 'dos reboot=h'. Dos is the dos boot label, and I tried reboot=h with and without quotes. Nonetheless I may have solved the problem. I restepped through the W95 hardware installation wizard for the network card. The situation has changed. W95 now recognizes the card on reboot from Linux. But now I'm experiencing some unusual behavior when logging in to the NT server. I'll just have to figure out what else to reinstall now. This microsoft stuff is great. .kevin Bruce Perens wrote: From: kevin havener [EMAIL PROTECTED] When rebooting into W95 from Linux, I have to power cycle the machine to get it to recognize my 3C509 ethernet card. Try adding reboot=h to the boot command line. If that works, edit your lilo config to put it in there permanently. The reboot options are: w: warm - no power-on self-test. c: cold - performs POST. b: bios - reboot by jumping through the BIOS. h: hard - reset the CPU to reboot. Please get back to us and tell us if that works. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
3C509 acting strangely on Win95/Debian dual boot system
The problem began when the network guys switched from Novell server to NT Server...in the process they (up/down)graded me from WfW 3.11 to Win 95 on my local machine. This machine has Debian 1.3.4 (whatever) on it and I dual boot with regularity. When rebooting into Linux from W95 everything works great. YESS! When rebooting into W95 from Linux, I have to power cycle the machine to get it to recognize my 3C509 ethernet card. I've been doing this for a couple of months now...I'm just now getting tired of this behavior. So far my network admins have suggested that I run their configuration managed linux kernel 2.0.23 or something using loadlin. Didn't work. I'm put LILO back in place. Didn't work. Went back to my 2.0.29 and now 2.0.30 debian kernel. Still doesn't work. Now you and I know this is almost assuredly a micro$oft W95/NT problem. Has anyone else encounterd this problem or could otherwise give me a clue how to make 95/NT act as nice as WfW 3.11 did with Linux. TIA kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Moving and Repartitioning
Read the Answer Guy column in the latest Linux Gazette (http://www.ssc.com/lg) for a thorough discussion of how to accomplish a backup using cpio. I hope that's where I saw it :-). And I hope this message makes it to the list OK...my first attempt to use netscape to send mail. hth; kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the best ways to do this ? I thought of: a) creating a gzipped tarfile on my jaz-drive (1 Gb, so I can't just copy it) (drawback: tar seems to have some quirks in that it doesn't always correctly restores permissions) b) reinstalling (drawback: needs reconfiguring too, things may accidentally be left out) c) using a backupprogram that allows compressed backups to the Jaz, then repartitioning, then restoring. Any ideas ? This is a good question indeed. Actually, I just did this type of thing myself 2 days ago.. and it actually went quite successfully (with a couple of hic-cups that I finally ironed out). But, I managed to back-up all my linux stuff, repartition, and then reinstall everything. And so far, everything appears to be working exactly the way I had it before. The way I did it was to use cpio to backup all of my linux stuff. I did come into a snag since I also made a backup of my /proc directory (which you shouldn't really make a backup off because that is just process memory I believe). So, during my reinstall it hung when it got to the /proc directory. Fortunately, there are ways with cpio to specify which files to restore so I just restored everything except for /proc. The entire way that I did it is as follows: a) used cpio to back everything up (except /proc) b) repartition c) install base linux system did this just to have a shell that I could reinstall my backup d) make boot disk and boot into linux e) used cpio to reinstall stuff Now, I don't know if this is the best approach. It might be better to just execute a shell from the linux installation screen, mount the partition you want, and then use cpio to reinstall your backup. I'm not positive about the cpio options, but, this might be a problem if you did a cpio backup which include the / at the beginning (which I unfortunately did). I think if I were to do it again I would use cpio but instead backup the root directory by naming each of the directories instead of using /. Also, for my setup I'm using loadlin so I had to change the root partition device. After all this, everything works great with no problems! Good luck! Richard.. - Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
