On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 09:32:31PM -0500, Boris Gjenero wrote:
> I've just installed NetBSD-1.3.3 onto a DECstation 5000/125
> 
> There are two problems with X:
> 
> - The X server can't see font directories.  The directories are there
> (from xfont.tgz).  I've also tried the fonts uncompressed and compressed
> with compress.  I've used mkfontdir in all cases.  I've tried the -fp
> option.  Finally I ran the font server on the same machine, specified it
> using -fp and X started.

You need to run the font server.  The X11R5 server that we ship for the
pmax doesn't understand the precompressed pcf fonts that we ship with
the rest of our X11R6-based X distribution.  Using the font server is
a fairly simple workaround.