Here's a copy of a msg on how (I hope) I got this problem fixed. The problem was that xdos couldn't find the vga font. On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Quint Van Deman wrote: > Sorry--never was able to fix it and everywhere I posted people kept telling > me the same very basic things to try > Hello Quint. I don't know which step got things going right, but here's what I did. cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc deleted reference to vga.pcf in fonts.alias #changed the name of vga.pcf, twice, like this: mv vga.pcf vga.pc mv vga.pc vga.pcf #back to right name rm fonts.dir #start over with new fonts.dir mkfontdir #makes new fonts.dir xset fp rehash /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart The only thing I can figure is that one of these was the problem: 1. the reference to vga.pcf in fonts.alias 2. somehow vga.pcf filename had a bad feature of some kind. Is it possible to have a non-displayed char at the end of the filename? 3. some kind of corruption was being carried over to the new fonts.dir each time I ran mkfontdir in the past. Many, many times I had done everything except: deleting the ref in fonts.alias renaming vga.pcf away from and back to its correct name Thought you might like to try this. What gave me the clue about what was wrong was this: xterm -fn vga #couldn't find the font 'vga' xterm -fn vga* #no font corresponding to 'vga.pcf' xterm -fn vga\* #xterm started with font displayed similar behavior with emacs and xfd. To me this meant that the font itself was ok, but that some kind of corruption in references to the font was keeping it hidden. But I'm no guru and this is wild guessing! We'll see if it survives my next restart of X and next reboot. Hugh Lawson Greensboro, North Carolina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
