SOLVED: Re: drmOpen failed - agp - 82845M chipset - i386

From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas_at_bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:16:58 +0100
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 01:57:45PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 02:32:54PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > Anton Shterenlikht <mexas_at_bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> >  > I've built X from ports, using x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel
> >  > [...]
> >  > Fatal server error:
> >  > could not open default font 'fixed'
> > 
> > Are you sure your have the xorg-fonts ports installed
> > (in particular you need x11-fonts/font-misc-misc), and
> > the font pah is set appropriately in your .conf file?
> > (It should include "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/",
> > at least.)
> 
> yes to both.
> 
> What I haven't got are fonts.alias files.
> 
> On my i386 FBSD 7.0-stable I have:
> 
> % pwd
> /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts
> % find . -name "*alias"
> ./75dpi/fonts.alias
> ./cyrillic/fonts.alias
> ./misc/fonts.alias
> %
> 
> but nothing on i386 8.0-current:
> 
> # pwd
> /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts
> # find . -name "*alias"
> #
> 
> I believe the installation of X from ports was identical
> on both 7.0-stable and 8.0-current.
> 
> Which program actually installs fonts.alias files?
> 
> I can probably copy these over, but I'd rather get to the
> bottom of this.

forgot

x11-fonts/font-cursor-misc
x11-fonts/font-alias

seems to work now

many thanks
anton

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