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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

8906.0. "could not open default font 'fixed' 4.0b" by KERNEL::NICHOLSONA (one suite too many can cause truth decay) Thu Feb 20 1997 09:42

    
    
    Hi,
    
    A customer has installed 4.0b of Digital Unix. If he uses Xdec to
    set the resolution to 1280x798 the monitor (vrt17-w3) goes black
    and appears to power down and then backup again.
    
    The system has a s3 trio card. xdm-errors reports the following
    
    
    failed to set default font path
    '/usr/lib/X11/fonts/decwin/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/font`
    Fatal server error:
    could not open default font 'fixed'
    xdm error (pid 973): IO Error in XOpenDisplay
    xdm error (pid 969): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1
    xdm error (pid 969): Display :0 cannot be opened
    failed to set default font path
    '/usr/lib/X11/fonts/decwin/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/font`
    Fatal server error:
    could not open default font 'fixed'
    xdm error (pid 975): IO Error in XOpenDisplay
    
    If he specifies Xdec -fp and specifies a list of fonts same as above
    then he can use 1280 resolution.
    
    Can anyone help on this ?
    
    Thanks
    Avril

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
8906.1	Possibly font subsets missing	NETRIX::"[email protected]"	Paul Grist	`Thu Feb 20 1997 14:06`	22
	There are 2 different font subsets to install, with s3trio you'll get the 75dpi because the default resolution is 1024x768. If you try to upgrade the resolution to 1280x1024 using the -screen option for the X server (see http://www.zk3.dec.com/uhs/graphics/FAQ/resolution_vsync.txt) then you need the 100dpi fonts. To save space these are not installed by default, so you may need to install the subset from your Digital UNIX distribution media. They should be there on a Factory installed system. To verify if you have them try this: # setld -i \| grep -i 100dpi OSFFONT15400 installed DECwindows 100dpi Fonts (Windowing Environment) Let me know if this was the problem, thanks, Paul [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
8906.2	fonts not installed correctly	KERNEL::NICHOLSONA	one suite too many can cause truth decay	`Tue Feb 25 1997 09:33`	11
	Hi, The /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi were not installed properly. Customer reran the operating system and they installed ok.. Thanks for all the help Avril