"Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@crufty.net> writes:
> I've setup a separate machine to act as an X display.
> The video card is an Intel 82815 which isn't very swish, 
> 1280x1024 at 16bit is as good as I can get out of it.
>
> Anyway, current problem is that XFree86 reports:
>
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/, removing from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from list!
>
> This results in normally useful fonts being almost unreadable.
>
> After comparing the content of those dirs with those on a machine
> that was working fine I gave up and mounted X11R6 from that machine.
> But I still get the same problem (yes I restarted X ;-)

Are you loading the type1, freetype, speedo and other modules? Those
might be the issue. Without those modules, the X server won't be able
to do anything with those fonts.

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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com