On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Gregory Doyle wrote:
> I have installed dosemu 0.99.10-4 which came with RH 6.0 that I have
> alsoinstalled. I am using Caldera DR-DOS 7.02. When I run xdos I get
> the following error messages:
> ERROR X unable to open font "vga"ERROR: , trying "vga"...
> ERROR X unable to open font "vga"ERROR: , trying "9x15"...
> Following the error messages xdos then runs.
Either none of the DOSEMU fonts were installed, or, as the other mail
suggested, you haven't run the 'xset fp rehash' command. You should not
have to run this command if you have started X more recently than the
installation of DOSEMU.
The other mail mentioned it was solved by installing a previous version of
DOSEMU. This is probably because this installation used *OUR* RPM file,
not a RedHat one. It looks like RedHat have a broken RPM - quite aside
from their ridiculous decision to include a *developer* copy of DOSEMU on
a "production" release of their CDs.
If the font is missing from your X font directories then you might want to
consider either upgrading to one of our RPMs, installing from source, or
getting a VGA font from somewhere. We have one in the contrib directory of
your favourite ftp.DOSEMU.org mirror.
> I was trying to run a Clipper Program. The Program runs, however, the
> box and line drawing characters come
> out as strange foreign characers.
This is to be expected if you don't have the correct font.
> I have set the Term_Char_Set to 'ibm' hoping this would help.
Thats *Term*_Char_Set, not *XTerm*_Char_Set. It doesn't apply to xdos.
> I have also run dosemu from the console, where I get the line and box
> characters display correctly, but the colours of the display are messed
> up to such a degree that it is very difficult to read some things on the
> screen.
Sounds like you were either running on a video card that isn't handled
correctly, or you were running it at the same time as running X.
Alistair
