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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!ames!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty
From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: S3 server on Orchid F1280, Problem
Message-ID: <1992Oct24.161831.5124@netcom.com>
Keywords: S3, Orchid
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
References: <1992Oct23.130246.14480@udel.edu> <1992Oct24.052650.17914@netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1992 16:18:31 GMT
Lines: 81

In article <1992Oct24.052650.17914@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>In article <1992Oct23.130246.14480@udel.edu> mm@brl.mil writes:
>>Last night I loaded the latest version of Amancio Hasty's S3 server and
>>ran into a problem.  After an "xinit > &uhoh", this is what uhoh contained:
>>
>>
>>  S3 0.1 / X Windows System
>>  (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
>>
>>  S3
>>  failed to set default font path '/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,
>>				   /usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/'
>>  Fatal server error:
>>  could not open default font 'fixed'
>>  XIO:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
>>        after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>>        The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
>>
>>
>>And then I had a nice deep blue screen but had to kill the server.  The same
>>font path works fine for the X386mono server.  Has anyone else had this
>>problem or have an idea what's wrong?  I even tried changing my RGB and Font
>>Paths to /bd/X11R5/lib where lib was a link to /usr/X386/lib.  No luck.
>>
>>As mentioned in the subject line, I'm using an Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 (on a
>>486DX 33MHz, with switch 3 "on" and the others "off" on the F1280 card).
>>Here is the Xconfig file I used:
>>
>>RGBPath		"/usr/X386/lib/X11/rgb"
>>FontPath	"/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
>>
>>Keyboard
>>  AutoRepeat 500 5
>>  ServerNumLock
>>
>>Microsoft	"/dev/com1"
>>
>>VGA256
>>  Vendor	"Orchid"
>>  Clocks	0 3 5
>>  Virtual	640 480
>>  ViewPort      0 0
>>  Modes	        "640x480"
>>  Videoram 	1024
>>
>>ModeDB
>># name        clock   horizontal timing     vertical timing      flags
>> "640x480"   0     640  672  768  800    480  490  492  525
>># "800x600"   3      800  824  896 1024    600  601  603  625
>># "1024x768i" 5    1024 1064 1224 1264    768  776  785  817   Interlace
>>
>>Thanks for any insight at all into this problem!
>>-- 
>>Mike Markowski
>>mm@brl.mil
>>(410)278-6674
>
>

Well, XS3 does not support compressed fonts. This problem
will not be fix in XS3 , but the solution is to integrate
the XS3 server with XFree86. The integrated XS3 into XFree86
will be available in the near future.

The interim solution is to uncompress all your installed fonts
and replace in all your fonts.dir any reference to ...pcf.Z files
to ...pcf files. The standard XFree86 font distribution has the
following paths to fonts:
(1) X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
(2) X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc

You will find your two fonts.dir along will all ...pcf.Z fonts
in the two mentioned directories.

Let me know what you think about XS3-0.1.


Enjoy,
Amancio Hasty