From: Sergei Borodin (sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu)
Date: 12/07/92


From: sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin)
Subject: Re: HELP! X386.S3.2b server and the fixed-font bug!!!
Date: 7 Dec 1992 22:22:17 GMT

In article <1992Dec7.213811.2731@primerd.prime.com> cummings@hammer.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings) writes:
>In article <1992Dec5.132101.19140@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (T.J.R. Cutts) writes:
>> You have to decompress all the fonts, then mkfontdir. Then away you go. It says
>> this in one of the README files (which people of course usually ignore... 8-) )

>mkfontdir gives me "unable to create directory in ." error message. Even when
>I'm root!

 I had that problem. It went away when I reinstalled fonts and changed
 permission to 755. Now S3 X-server works fine with twm but I can't
 make olvwm work - keep getting the message "can't open display :0" :(

>Kevin J. Cummings ComputerVision Services

 S.B.