I am trying to add scalable font support to an existing Xvesa Kdrive/TinyX server. This server runs on an x86-based device that uses (and must use) a Redhat 7.3 kernel. The linux install is hand-made and slimmed-down to fit in to a RPL boot image, so I do not have any developer tools available when it is running on the device. I am somewhat new to linux, and very new to building custom Xservers. I have been reading various Kdrive/TinyX webpages I found through Google and am trying to read the files that come with XFree86. I have the Xvesa Kdrive binary that I am to replace. It's about 8MB, and it works. I do not have the XFree86 sources that were to used to build it, and I think most importantly, I do not have the config files used to build it. I have divided my tasks in to these steps: 1) Compile plain-vanilla Xvesa Kdrive server (done) 2) Make sure plain-vanilla Xvesa can run on device (crashes) 3) Compile with scalable font support (builds fail) 4) Make sure new Xvesa Kdrive can run on device 5) Modify app to display scalable fonts The first thing I did was install Redhat 7.3 on to a spare x86 PC. Next, I downloaded the XFree86-4.5.0-src files from Xfree86.org, and uncompressed them in to /root/x/. I'm not sure of the exact relationship between site.def, xf86site.def, TinyX.cf, and host.def - but I copied xf86site.def to /root/x/xc/conf/cf/host.def, and added these 3 lines: #define KDriveXServer YES #define TinyXServer YES #define XvesaServer YES Then I successfully compiled using: make World > World.log 2>&1 It created an Xvesa file at /root/x/xc/programs/Xserver/Xvesa that is about 8MB. I put this Xvesa file in to the device's RPL image, prayed, and booted it. It didn't work, and displayed these messages: Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF,removing from list. Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/speedo,removing from list. Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID,removing from list. Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,removing from list. Could not open default font 'fixed' Again, my initial goal here is to just create and run a plain-vanilla Xvesa Kdrive server. So far I have these questions: 1) Do I have to specify in the host.def where in device's linux hierarchy font files are located (there are some in a /usr/share/fonts directory). 2) Was I right to copy xf86site.def to host.def, rather than use site.def? 3) Should I expect to make Kdrive work with Microsoft's (free) scalable TrueType Core Fonts? (those are the ones I plan to use) 4) Should I be using software from X.org as opposed to Xfree86.org? 5) Is there an easy way to speed up the builds, which take 55 minutes on my dedicated PC. Thanks if you got this far! Any suggestions are certainly welcome. __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
