Yupe stab city - the home of hurling!! Got that matter fixed by editing
fonts.alias in the /misc folder.
To sum up this question, and the other about the livecd, can I now add
whatever application software I need, compress the fs (reiser) and build
a livecd for my own system, as I'm going to leave the 'generic build'
livecd till later?
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 11:17, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> On 4/25/05, Donal Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > First of all, I think I'm the fatality here, not the package. I'm
> > getting the same problem with Xorg 6.8.2 over and over again. My
> > xorg.conf look ok, and I have loaded the freefonts ttf fonts into the
> > /TTF directory in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
> >
> > I went back to the X-Windows System Components page to make sure I'd
> > installed these fonts properly. I did the sed command at the bottom of
> > the page just in case the locale was not ISO-8859-1
> >
> > sed -i 's,iso8859-1\( \|$\),iso8859-[X]\1,g' \
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{75dpi,100dpi,misc}/fonts.alias
> >
> > The errors I'm getting are
> >
> > Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved (I have dri
> > enabled in xorg.conf)
> >
> > Fatal server Error - could not open default font 'fixed'
> > This is the recurring error. I have not installed corefonts. Do I need
> > the TWO of these fonts packages, or will freefonts do, as that's what I
> > already have?
> >
> > A startx command will now make the screen go black and flicker
> > periodically, and then output these messages.
> >
> > Does anyone know what I might do to get back to a somewhat ok X I had
> > earlier, as the only change I made was the sed comand, and I even redone
> > xorgconfig ??
>
> Donal, I'm calling you names in the back of my mind. You're in
> Ireland, like me. iso8859-1 is fine! Where is your apartment - Mars?
> ;-). You're in 'Stab City' aren't you? Limerick? :-).
>
> Check your locale, (/etc/environment). move those files sideways, use
> mkfontdir and/or fix the iso8859 expression in the file.
>
> Where is fontconfig in all of this anyhow? This was where (yet
> another) program was added in to help us all make a mess of our fonts.
> You can't get out of this mess without approaching that, and asking it
> to fix things.
>
> the sed command I would run is to look at what you have in the fonts
> files now ('?' below) and then run
> sed 's/iso8859-?/iso8859-1/' <filenames>
>
> --
> All the Best
>
> Declan.
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