On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:30:15PM -0700, x nooby wrote: >Hi David, > >> > Could not open default font 'fixed' >> >> You will need at least some bitmap fonts installed >> (for "fixed"). The >> Xvesa from a default XFree86 4.5.0 build is about >> 850kB, not 8MB. > >You are right, the Xvesa is only about 850K, 8MB was >the size of the RPL-image. > >I'm a bit confused. I thought KDrive used "built-in" >fonts, and thus there would be no need to include >them. Yet, I see that the program I am trying to >change has both fonts inside the RPL image and makes a >symlink to a font directory on the RPL server. So >clearly externally defined fonts are being used. TinyX in XFree86 4.5.0 does not use built-in fonts. I plan to re-write the built-in font support at some point. >The fonts in the RPL image are located at: > > /usr/share/jimbob/fonts/*.fon > >And the symlink established before the app starts is: > > ln -s /mnt/rpl_server/fonts >/home/jimbob/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts > >The application on the device uses wxWidgets for it's >GUI interface, so perhaps *it* is looking for these >fonts at the above two locations instead of the Xvesa >server. > >I doubt either of the font locations I have found are >the default for the Kdrive Xvesa server, so I wanted >to try and change the default font directory >(especially if they are not really "built-in"). > >I have been googling and reading the cf files trying >to find a #define to set the default font directory, >do you know if there is one? > >I looked in to mkfontscale and mkfontdir, and the >files they create are not present in the RPL-image. >They *are* located at a location based off where the >symlink points: > > > /usr/share/jimbob/fonts/misc/fonts.dir > /usr/share/jimbob/fonts/misc/fonts.alias > /usr/share/jimbob/fonts/misc/<a bunch of font files> > > >So now it really looks like I need to get Xvesa to >look for the fonts at: > > /home/jimbob/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts You can either set DefaultFontPath in your host.def to change the compiled-in default, or run the X server with a -fp option to set the path at run-time. See the Xserver(1) man page for details. David _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
