On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 04:09:42PM -0500, Christopher M. Jones wrote: > The problem seems to be just the size of the fonts. It seems that X is using > a really big, unscaled bitmap. I've tried changing around the font paths in > XF86Config... no help. I tried setting up xfs, but X doesn't want to use it > (tells me it can't find a transport). I've tried specifying a good font using > the -fn switch pased to the server, but the server hangs. > > This is an out-of-the-box install, so the answer must be a very simple one, > like setting a resource or something. But since I don't know how to find the > problem, I can't find the solution. > > Sorry for the lack of information here, but again: I don't know what > questions to ask to get started.
Me neither, but lets start with: did you install any font packages? Also, knowing what version of xfree86 packages you are using would be useful, and maybe the output of "grep -i font /etc/X11/XF86*". Cheers, Joost
