xorg7 and fixed font issue

Dave Grochowski grocho98 at students.rowan.edu
Fri Dec 29 18:11:15 PST 2006


Hey,

Gergely CZUCZY wrote:
> hello
>
> today i have installed xorg7 from
> http://wikitest.freebsd.org/ModularxOrg
>
> the building process was clear, however when i'm
> trying to run X i got the following error message:
>
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> i have installed-deinstalled-installed-reinstalled-etc
> the xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps port, removed all of its
> deps, reinstalled the whole thing, as i saw this to be
> the solution in a previous very similar issue. but
> fortunetly this didn't helped, i still got the same
> error mesage.
>
> the whole log can be found here:
> http://phoemix.harmless.hu/Xorg.0.log
>
> what have done wrong? how can i fix this?
>
> Bye,
>
> Gergely Czuczy
> mailto: gergely.czuczy at harmless.hu
>
>   
You need to install x11-fonts/font-alias for it to work properly. 
Hopefully flz will hook this into the X.org build sooner or later. I 
would write a patch, but I'm not sure where it should go. I guess it 
should be a dependency of x11-fonts/xorg-fonts?

Sincerely,
Dave Grochowski



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