From: Ralph Alvy <ralvy@warpmail.net>
To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ye olde vga fonts problem redux
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:23:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bmpmkv$h0d$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3F8FFF89.5060406@bright.net
Dave Phillips wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> Voodoo magic strikes!
>
> Yesterday I was happily running dosemu 1.1.99, everything looked and
> ran great. But this morning when I fired it up I received this popular
> error :
>
> [dlphilp@localhost dosemu]$ ./xdosemu
>
> You do not have the DOSEMU vga font installed and are running
> remote X. You need to install the vga font on your _local_ Xserver.
> Look at the readme for details. For now we start with an fixed font,
> which does not display all national characters correctly.
> ... be warned
>
> ERROR: X: Unable to open font "vga"ERROR: , trying "vga"...
> ERROR: X: Unable to open font "vga"ERROR: , trying "9x15"...
>
>
> Umm... Absolutely *nothing* was touched from the time I went to bed
> last night until I got up this morning. I did not receive this error
> before today. I'm *not* running X remotely, I'm running it as normal
> user as usual, just like it was run yesterday with no problems. Can
> someone please tell me how to permanently fix this problem ?
>
> I'm using the binary distribution of 1.1.99, running it from the
> installation directory at /home/dlphilp/mydos/dosemu. This worked
> wonderfully before this morning. The /usr/local/share/dosemu/Xfonts
> directory doesn't exist so the fix at
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org/msg02751.html
> does not work. Very frustrated here, can someone help ? TIA!
Have you tried runing
xset fp default
and then loading xdosemu after that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-17 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-16 20:17 some comments re: dosemu 1.1.99 (fwd) Bart Oldeman
2003-10-17 11:28 ` Clarence Dang
2003-10-17 14:41 ` ye olde vga fonts problem redux Dave Phillips
2003-10-17 21:23 ` Ralph Alvy [this message]
2003-10-18 21:21 ` some comments re: dosemu 1.1.99 (fwd) Dave Phillips
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