Re: [PLUG] DOSEMU, X, and font madness

["eric@lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

Yes, apparently Mandrake uses xfs.  I restarted that by rebooting for
the 3rd time and, wnoder of wonders, it works :-P
Unfortunately, I'm not sure what actually "did it".  

Thanks.

Eric

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:24:57PM -0500, Mental Patient wrote:
> eric@lucii.org wrote:
> >I'm running dosemu 1.2 under Mandrake 9.1
> >It complains that it likes it's own font, vga.pcf, and cannot find it.
> >
> >Okay.  
> >
> >So I follow the instructions in the documentation and copy vga.pcf to
> >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc.  Then I type: mkfontdir in that same
> >directory.  I see that the fonts.dir now has the vga font in it.
> >
> >I've restarted the X server, and then I try to use it (just to 
> >test it out) like this:
> >  xterm -fn vga
> >which fails.
> >
> 
> Are you using a font server? If so, did you restart that?
> 
> 
> 
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