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Valmor de Almeida

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May 12, 2009, 11:30:18 AM5/12/09
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Hello,

After an update to xorg-1.5.3 (with hal), following the gentoo xorg 1.5
update guide doc, I get warnings when launching a simple xterm. Also
when trying to change the font size (ctrl+left_mouse_button) I get
additional warnings and no font change. Do I need to emerge font packages?

Thanks,

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Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
xterm: cannot load font
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
xterm: cannot load font
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1
xterm: cannot load font
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1
xterm: cannot load font
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
xterm: cannot load font
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1
xterm: cannot load font
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1

Valmor de Almeida

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May 12, 2009, 11:50:07 AM5/12/09
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Just to add to the info above; from Xorg.0.log

(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(**) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/misc/,
/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,
/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,
/usr/share/fonts/misc/,
/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,
/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,
built-ins
(**) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"


Thanks,

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Valmor

Paul Hartman

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May 12, 2009, 3:10:12 PM5/12/09
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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Valmor de Almeida
<val.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> After an update to xorg-1.5.3 (with hal), following the gentoo xorg 1.5
> update guide doc, I get warnings when launching a simple xterm. Also
> when trying to change the font size (ctrl+left_mouse_button) I get
> additional warnings and no font change. Do I need to emerge font packages?

Maybe re-emerge the fonts that you have installed.

Paul Hartman

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May 12, 2009, 3:20:14 PM5/12/09
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And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not
having problems.

Mats Persson

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May 25, 2009, 11:10:15 AM5/25/09
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Paul Hartman skrev:

I had the same problem with fonts in xterm. I had the errors:


Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct

xterm: cannot load font 7x14

The solution for me was to emerge the media-fonts/font-misc-misc package.

It seems that xorg-server-1.5.3 doesn't depend on this, unlike older
xorg-server versions. The fonts dependencies has moved to the newer
x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4 package.

/Mats Persson

Valmor de Almeida

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May 27, 2009, 10:50:07 PM5/27/09
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Paul Hartman wrote:

>
> And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not
> having problems.
>
>

It was not installed. Now xterm is happy.

Thanks,

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Valmor

Nikos Chantziaras

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May 28, 2009, 6:30:27 AM5/28/09
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Hmm, how can that be? It's a dependency of x11-base/xorg-x11.

Valmor de Almeida

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May 28, 2009, 10:50:15 AM5/28/09
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My xorg has been acting strange since the update to 1.5. Little problems
here and there. As of now I need font-misc-misc emerged into world.
Therefore

-> equery depends font-misc-misc
[ Searching for packages depending on font-misc-misc... ]


There were other posts in this list with the same problem.

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Nikos Chantziaras

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May 28, 2009, 12:10:11 PM5/28/09
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Weird. Here's mine:

equery depends font-misc-misc
* Searching for font-misc-misc ...
x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4 (>=media-fonts/font-misc-misc-1.0.0)

How can that be? Do you actually have x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4 installed?
If not, I can imagine many problems popping up.

Valmor de Almeida

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May 28, 2009, 12:40:16 PM5/28/09
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No I am using the "stable" 7.2

* x11-base/xorg-x11
Latest version available: 7.2
Latest version installed: 7.2
Size of files: 0 kB
Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org
Description: An X11 implementation maintained by the X.Org
Foundation (meta package)
License: as-is

I typically try to stick with the stable version of packages specially
when dealing with xorg. I wonder whether other problems I am having are
related to the version of xorg-x11 I am using.

Thanks,

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