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Bug 10236 - Xfree86 fails upon loading Microsoft fonts
Summary: Xfree86 fails upon loading Microsoft fonts
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal
Assignee: Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-11-04 21:14 UTC by Sam Cole
Modified: 2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
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XFree86 Log (XFree86.0.log,28.94 KB, application/octet-stream)
2002-11-04 21:16 UTC, Sam Cole 		Details
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Description Sam Cole 2002-11-04 21:14:30 UTC 
I did a copy of microsoft fonts from my windows partition to linux. I then
installed them:

cp /mnt/win/windows/Fonts/* /usr/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/
cd /usr/lib/X11/fonts/truetype
ttmkfdir > fonts.dir
startx

And then I use any program that uses font selection and select a microsoft font
(wingdings or the like) and X crashes with a message to read the log. So I'm
attatching the log.
Comment 1 Sam Cole 2002-11-04 21:16:00 UTC 
Created attachment 5377 [details]
XFree86 Log

This is my log upon crashing.
Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-11-05 09:13:04 UTC 
Please go read  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.fonts, as you are doing it
totally wrong.

  # cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype
  # ttmkfdir -e ../encodings/encodings.dir -o fonts.scale -d .
  # mkfontdir -e ../encodings -e ../encodings/large -- .

If /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/encodings.dir do not exist, you
generate it with:

 # mkfontdir -e /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings \
             -e /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large \
             -n -- /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings