On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Renaud Dreyer wrote:
> One thing though, I still get the error:
>
> PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file: Roman_M
>
> It doesn't prevent the server from loading, fortunately.
>
> I noticed that the other big endian Debian distributions (spark, m68k)
> were reporting the same error during the fall of 99, so I assume it's
> an endianness bug. Are people running other servers also getting this
> error? I never saw it while running Xpmac under LinuxPPC (or
> MkLinux).
Sometimes comes to my mind. David Dawes once told me that X can handle both big
and little endian fonts, but that it's better (performance-wise) to use
native-endian fonts. The only exception is the PEX fonts, which always have to
be native-endian.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
