fonts

[Justin Georgeson]

Justin Georgeson wrote:
> After recent tribulations getting dual-head setup, I'm noticing some 
> font problems. While in the process of setting up to use my AGP TNT2 and 
> my PCI voodoo 3 (the trick was to tell the BIOS to use PCI for the 
> primary controller, so that both buses would be initialized), X started 
> failing to load because it couldn't find the fixed fonts. So I added
> 
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
> 
> to the Files section, and that took care of it. But now a few things 
> (xmms, for one) are showing odd fonts. I've since added these others to 
> the FontPath. The biggest problem, though, is xawtv segfaulting. I still 
> have xfs running, and `chkfontpath -l` looks unaltered
> 
> [jgeorgeson at dragon ~]
> $ /usr/sbin/chkfontpath -l
> Current directories in font path:
> 1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
> 2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
> 3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
> 4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
> 5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
> 6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
> 7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic
> 8: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
> 9: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
> 10: /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts
> 11: /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts
> 12:
> 13: /usr/lib/openoffice/share/fonts/truetype
> [jgeorgeson at dragon ~]
> $
> 
> It's like X just can't totally talk to it anymore. The xawtv output is 
> below.
> 
> [jgeorgeson at dragon ~]
> $ xawtv
> This is xawtv-3.88, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp)
> Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
> Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default
> xinerama 0: 1280x1024+0+0
> xinerama 1: 1280x1024+1280+0
> Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: 
> XF86AudioRaiseVol ume
> Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>XF86AudioRaiseVolume: 
> Command(volume,inc'
> Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: 
> XF86AudioRaiseVol ume
> Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>XF86AudioRaiseVolume: 
> Command(volume,inc'
> Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> Warning: Cannot convert string 
> "-*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-* -iso8859-*, 
> -*-courier-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*, 
> -gnu-unifont-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*, -efont-biwidth-bold-r-nor 
> mal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-*-*-*, 
> -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*,                         -*- 
> *-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*" to type FontSet
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> Segmentation fault
> [jgeorgeson at dragon ~]
> $
> 
> 

anyone? I have xfs running, netstat shows the unix socket open (port 
7100 as expected), I have "unix:/7100" as a FontPath in the Files section.