fonts.alias part of xorg-server installation?

[Eric Anholt]

On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 11:04 -0700, Christopher Chin wrote:
> Howdy....
> 
> Starting from scrtach because of a dead hard drive, and I 
> just installed 6.8.2 (running FreeBSD 5.4-rel, I used 
> portinstall to add xorg-server-6.8.2_3).
> 
> I can't start the server b/c of the popular "could not
> open default font 'fixed'".
> 
> I understand that my fonts/misc/fonts.alias is missing
> but I'd like to know if it's part of the release, or if
> I'm *supposed* to add this by hand?  I hate hacking this
> early in the revival process.
> 
> I figured it should be part of the release, and even
> just reinstalled ('portupgrade -R -f xorg-server')
> but still no fonts.alias file....
> 
> Is there another port/package I should be adding?

If you want to run Xorg without knowing exactly what set of pieces you
need, install the "xorg" package.  You need more than just a server for
an X setup.  Notably, for the font "fixed" issue, you need
xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps.

-- 
Eric Anholt                                     eta at lclark.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/              anholt at FreeBSD.org
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