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Title: AcceleratedX and Metro-X have font problems

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AcceleratedX and Metro-X have font problems

Applicable to
S.u.S.E. version: as of 5.0
XFree86 version: as of 3.3

Symptom:

You are using the commercial X server Metro-X from Metrolink or AcceleratedX from Xi-Graphics with a S.u.S.E. Linux 5.0 system. The X server warns while starting that it cannot find certain fonts.

Cause:

In a standard system (XFree86), all fonts are stored in a compressed format, in order to save hard disk space and to speed the loading time. The program gzip is used to compress the font files (files with extension .gz).

In the past the font files were compressed using the compress program (files with extension .Z). According to the X11 standard, the font files should be readable in both compression formats. However, Metro-X and AcceleratedX seem only able to read font files that were compressed using compress. Since the font files are all gzipped, they cannot find any .Z-files.

Solution:

You can do the following:

Please examine all font directories. You will normally find the font files in subdirectories of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts. Proceed as follows for each of these subdirectories.
delete the file fonts.dir:
```
rm -f fonts.dir
```
unzip all the font files (*.gz):
```
gzip -d *.gz
```
compress all the font files with compress:
```
compress *.pcf
```
generate a new font listing for this subdirectory:
```
mkfontdir .
```

See also:

Known problems and peculiarities in S.u.S.E. Linux 5.0

Keywords: MKFONTDIR, FONT, GZIP, COMPRESS, .Z, ACCELERATEDX, XACCEL, XFREE, X-SERVER, METRO-X

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