Re: [iPAQ] font problems

From: Jim Gettys <jg.a.t.pa.dec.com>
Date: Tue Jan 08 2002 - 13:58:19 EST

I suspect it may be time to upgrade to Familiar .5 or .5.1 (being
tested). Then you can set up USB networking, and do a normal postinst.

BTW, the rxvt package for aa text is named rxvt-aa; it must be installed
if you want aa text in a terminal emulator.
                        - Jim

--
Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
Compaq Computer Corporation
jg@pa.dec.com
> Sender: pahakala@velli.mail.jippii.net
> From: Pasi Hakala <pahakala@netti.fi>
> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 20:01:30 +0200
> To: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>
> Cc: ipaq@handhelds.org
> Subject: Re: [iPAQ] font problems
> -----
> Jim Gettys wrote:
> >
> > You don't state what version of Intimate you are running, or on
> > what hardware, or whether you used postinst to install them...
> >
> > Care to help me out?
> >                         - Jim
> >
> > --
> > Jim Gettys
> > Cambridge Research Laboratory
> > Compaq Computer Corporation
> > jg@pa.dec.com
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> The hardware is 32Mb 3630 with PCMCIA sleeve and 1Gb microdrive +
> stowaway
> keyboard. I'm afraid the "distribution" might be a bit of a mixed bag,
> since
> I first installed either v. 0.3 or 0.4 last spring, and then I think I
> had to
> update it to get the stowaway working... :(
> 
> /proc/version says:
> 
> Linux version 2.4.2-rmk1-np1 ... gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
> #103 Sun Mar 11 17:47:07 GMT 2001
> 
> I wasn't able to run the postinst-script as my ipaq doesn't have the net
> connection, but I manually put the ttf-fonts in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf
> and made the changes to the /root/.Xdefaults file.  The system does not
> complain about not finding the fonts, and changing, say to Verdana-9,
> changes
> the fonts in rxvt.
> 
>         I hope this helps at least a bit...
> 
>                                 Cheers, Pasi
Received on Tue Jan 8 10:58:49 2002

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