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From: billy@somers.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Billy Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XF86 prob with PEX font file
Date: 24 Apr 1996 18:07:46 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Robert Kennedy wrote:
[trim]
> What exactly is the filename? I get the same error message on my
> XFree86-3.1.2 system, and I MOST CERTAINLY HAVE installed the
> X312lib.tgz file. I get nothing in response to the following 'find'
> command:
> [121] robert@grover> pwd
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale
> [122] robert@grover> find . -name \* -exec grep -i roman_m /dev/null \{\} \;
> [123] robert@grover>
>
> So what's the deal? Is there a wrongly-packaged version of X312lib.tgz
> out there somewhere? I doubt it. From all I can tell, Billy's problem
> has nothing to do with X312lib.tgz. What *does* it have to do with?
> Please clarify. Thanks!
>
> Actually, while we're on the subject, what is PEX? Needless to say,
> "man pex" and variations thereon tell me nothing. What is a PEX font?
> What is PEXExtensionInit?
>
> How will I benefit if someday my server finally *can* open the default
> PEX font file Roman_M?
My problem was that when i ran the original installation for FBSD I
didn't include the PEX package. I reinstalled and added that package as
well as most of the other X packages which solved this problem. What X
is looking for is a whole directory of PEX fonts. I think it's called
PEX. If you don't have any such directory in your directory tree then
you need to either reinstall and make sure you include the PEX package,
or get the PEX package and install it manually. I think if you installed
from a cd you can do a post-install addition or something like that.
My new problem now is that it finds the PEX package, then my screen fliks
to black and then it reboots. Does anyone know of anything special I
should include, install or be doing in general? I think it has to do
with either my Stealth 64 Video DRAM vidcard or my MAG1795 17" moniter.
Also, when I run FBSD w/o X my screen ocassionaly starts flickering
between brightness. It isn't the hardware itself because it doesn't
flicker when I run NT, and I defined the horizontal and vertical Hz to
what it said in my moniter's book.
Any help is gratefully received. - billy
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