greymaus wrote :

> Installing slack 12.1 on a small laptop, have got as far as starting X,
> failing because `Cant find default font `fixed''. Any idea what `fixed'
> is?

Its the fonts in the "font-misc-misc-1.0.0.noarch-2.tgz" package.
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On May 30, 4:40 pm, greymaus wrote:
> Installing slack 12.1 on a small laptop, have got as far as starting X,
> failing because `Cant find default font `fixed''. Any idea what `fixed'
> is? (I copied one of the font familys in /usr/share/fonts to `fixed', no
> joy.)

you must install 'fontconfig' first,then install the fonts.Otherwise
you will get the problem.

On 2008-05-30, greymaus wrote:
>
> Installing slack 12.1 on a small laptop, have got as far as starting X,
> failing because `Cant find default font `fixed''. Any idea what `fixed'
> is? (I copied one of the font familys in /usr/share/fonts to `fixed', no
> joy.)
>
>

After a lot of fiddling with this, no joy. Then I downloaded the file
fonts-misc-misc* from the 12.1 release, and the file fonts-misc-misc* from
the 12.0 release, unpacked them both into empty directories, and checked
the contents. There are 2 files in the 12.0 directory, encodings.dir and
fonts.alias, (These are the raw downloads, not after being
`installpkg'-ed. The fonts-alias file has 'fixed' as an alias for one of
the fonts.


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greymaus wrote :

> After a lot of fiddling with this, no joy. Then I downloaded the file
> fonts-misc-misc* from the 12.1 release, and the file fonts-misc-misc* from
> the 12.0 release, unpacked them both into empty directories, and checked
> the contents.

You can have the files in a Slackware package listed using the 'less'
command, or you can browse the package using Midnight Commander (mc).

> There are 2 files in the 12.0 directory, encodings.dir and
> fonts.alias, (These are the raw downloads, not after being
> `installpkg'-ed. The fonts-alias file has 'fixed' as an alias for one
> of the fonts.

Check the md5sum because those packages must be b0rken, here there's
more than 300 fonts included. If the md5sum fails then download the
packages from another mirror.
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