Hi all,
answering myself..
I ve got the answer in http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xfont.html
Some of the ttf fonts included with mdk are broken.
I'm still curious about which fonts are broken.
How can I find out?
Regards,
Peter
Peter Heckert wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I copied some ttf fonts from Windows to
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts
>
> Then I did as root:
>
> [root@hal1 ttfonts]# ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale
> Then these messages appeared:
> unknown font foundry code
> unknown font foundry code FROG
> unknown font foundry code SFT
> I ignored them.
>
> then I did: #mkfontdir
>
> as i have read in the Font-Deuglification-Howto.
> I also restarted xfs and X
>
> Then X refused to start,it couldnt access the font server.
> I got messages about broken Sockets,and xfs didnt run anymore.
> I think xfs crashed.
>
> Then I removed all added fonts and repeated the ttmkfdir and
> mkfontdir commands.
>
> I still got the above error messages "unknown font foundry code..."
> and X wouldnt start.
>
> Then I disabled the ..../ttfontdir directory in the configuration
> file of xfs.
> Now X starts again,and therefore I'm sure,there is an error with
> my true type fonts.
>
> Now I dont know how to proceed with this.
> Maybe something is missing or wrong.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
>
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> Sig lost.
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