In the XFree86 world (not sure how that maps to NetBSD) in about July or 
August of this year they moved from version 3.2 to 3.3.  The 3.2 version 
used compressed (*.Z) fonts.  3.3 used gzipped (*.gz) fonts.  My commercial 
X-server for Linux required that I go into each of my font directories, 
ungzip them, and then compress them.  Seems I had to do a mkfontdir in 
there somewhere.  For awhile I even left them unzipped...later went back 
and ran compress on them.  Worked fine either way.  Look in those 
directories below and see whether the suffix is *.Z or *.gz.  That should 
tell you what generation of X-server installed the fonts anyway.

                                 kevin

On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote:

> >From what I read of the help files, FAQ and man pages before I used it, 
> screen lets you have mulitple screens running and lets you switch between 
> them, cut and paste and a bunch of other stuff.
> 
> As for the error message with the fonts.  I am wondering if something 
> changed with the fonts between 1.2C's and 1.3_alpha's X Window.
> 
> Is anyone else able to run color on a IIci using the 1.3_alpha X release 
> and the Xmacbsd.960512 server?
> 
> Sean.
> 
> >Don't know if this'll help, but FWIW...
> >
> >Older versions of X-servers used compressed fonts (*Z), the new x-servers 
> >use gzipped fonts.  Don't know anything about "screen" but maybe it's 
> >expecting compressed fonts instead of gzipped ones??  Just a guess.  It 
> >came up recently on my commercial X (for Linux) server.  Got the exact 
> >same error message.
> >
> >                          kevin
> >
> >On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote:
> >
> >> Hey, screen is pretty neat!  I didn't have it, so I grabbed it off the 
> >> GNU distribution set that came with the "Red Book".  It compiled right 
> >> out of the box.
> >> 
> >> Anyway, when I do startx this is what screen gives me back:
> >> 
> >> hussar# startx
> >> 
> >> Screen 0 at 0xfd000020, 640 by 480, 8 bpp, rowB 1024, fbbase 0xfd000020.
> >> failed to set default font path 
> >> '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6
> >> /lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fo
> >> nts/100dpi/'
> >> Fatal server error:
> >> could not open default font 'fixed'
> >> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
> >> hussar#
> >> 
> >> Where can I set the default font path?  Is that in a settings file, or is 
> >> that something that should have been compiled in?
> >> 
> >> Sean
> 
> 
>                  T. Sean (Theo) Schulze
> 71410.25@compuserve.com            TSSchulze@aol.com
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