On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Gordon Cooper wrote:
> It already had ttf support? How do you set it up? I tried putting my
> windows fonts directory into /etc/X11/fs/config but I didn't see any
> results. Is there a howto or something like that around? I don't like how
> Netscape has screwy fonts...
Yep, we've had truetype fonts for awhile now. Specify a mount point for
your windows partitions and the installer should handle detecting windows
fonts and adding them to the xfs config. Howto is either on mandrakeuser,
or the Newbie list faq
> Eddy Cooper
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Axalon Bloodstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 1999 10:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] X problem
>
>
> On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Gordon Cooper wrote:
>
> > Hi I have Cooker and I have gotten myself into a problem: I switched the
> > font server to xfstt (for true type fonts) and now X will not start
> because
> > it can't find it's default font. What I'd like to know is where the
> > configuration for the default X font is so that I can change it. As it
> is,
> > I can't use linux at all because I had it set to start X when I boot linux
> > but now it just sits there trying to connect to the X server. I have to
> > reboot to stop it. The only access I have is through Windows but I can
> edit
> > files through a program I picked up that gives you read/write access to an
> > ext2 drive. Thankyou
> >
> > Eddy Cooper
>
> FontPath is defined in your /etc/X11/XF86Config, but well you did already
> have ttf support out-of-the-box.
>
> As for it autostarting X, just "linux 3" at the lilo prompt
>
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