TTF fonts in XFree86

[Malcolm Kay]

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:37, flux wrote:
> Hi everyone,

You seem to be a day ahead of the rest of us!

>
>   I want to use TrueType font collection from MS Windows. I mounted my
> FAT32 partition on my FreeBSD box and copied all *.TTF files from
> C:\WINDOWS\Fonts to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ directory. Then
> I added the following line into my /etc/X11R6/XF86Config:
>
> FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
>

Does this directory contain a file fonts.dir?
You possibly need to go there and execute:
# mkfontdir

Malcolm Kay