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alfredo, you need to create a directory with ttfonts. on debian, it
defaults to /usr/share/fonts, and this is a good place to put them.
next, change to that directory, and issue xfstt --sync. this will create a
file with the necessary info for the xserver to access these fonts. after
that, you need to run xfstt in daemon mode.
see man xfstt for details.
oh -- i almost forgot. the reason why the x server crashed is because xfstt
wasn't actually running. i'll bet if you did a "ps ax", you'd find that
xfstt was missing. X searched for fonts located at that particular port,
and found nothing binded (bound? bounded), so it crashed. in early X days,
some servers crashed when they had a bad font directory. that's prolly
what's happening here.
what distribution are you using? are you SURE they don't have a pre-canned
version of xfstt?
pete
On Tue 30 Jan 01, 4:19 PM, Alfredo Lopez De Leon Ph.D. said:
> I am trying to install the XFSTT font server. I downloaded the source got
> compiled and installed. After doing all the changes to my rc.local and
> XF86Config siles I discovered that my Xserver crashes. I got rid of the
> FonthPath instruction on my XF86Config and now it doen't crash but I don't have
> access to my TT fonts. Does anybody knows what is the trick to get to work?
>
> TIA
>
> Alfredo
> (working hard at destroying his LINUX installation)
> (But I got FTP and Apache working!)
> ****************************************************
> The configuration instructions indicate that I should add
> the folowing line to my XF86Config file:
>
> > FontPath "unix/:7101"
>
> My system seems to hate this instruction and crashes the Xserver:
>
> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> failed to set default font path
>'/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,unix/:7101'
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages
>
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> switching back to runlevel 3
>
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