From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralph Alvy Subject: Re: ye olde vga fonts problem redux Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:23:49 -0700 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <200310172128.24344.clarencedang@yahoo.com> <3F8FFF89.5060406@bright.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org 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?