Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Umashankar Panda" <[email protected]> · Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:17:16 +0000

Thank you very much for your suggestion. The problem is solved now. I
uploaded two packages. 1. "fonts-alias" and  "font-xfree86-type1"

regards

U. Panda

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Pete Jemian <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Attached is a lowest-common-demoninator fonts.alias file I append to the
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias file.  It may not use the
> prettiest fonts but it satisfies a minimal set of requirements.  It has been
> used with various X11 servers (Solaris, RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, Scientific
> Linux, Ubuntu, Cygwin, X-Win32, eXceed) over the last decade.  Hope this
> helps.
>
> Add it as indicated above and then restart the X11 server.
>
> Pete
>
>
> Mohan Ramanathan wrote:
>>
>> The medm.alias file points to fonts in 72dp[i and 100dpi fonts.
>>
>> these in turn ate alias to other fonts.  My guess is that one has to look
>> for the alaised font and see it it exists or change then to ones which are
>> loaded by X11.
>>
>> mohan
>>
>> Umashankar Panda wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Sir,
>>>
>>> I have checked the font.alias file. It is also OK.
>>>
>>> Some fonts are still coming in the form of boxes with few dots.
>>>
>>> With regards
>>>
>>> U. Panda
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Mauro Giacchini
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much, I'll work to fix it.
>>>> Mauro.
>>>>
>>>> Mohan Ramanathan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> hi;
>>>>>
>>>>> you need the medm.alias file loaded in the X11 fonts directory.
>>>>> If you cant find it see
>>>>> http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/extensions/medm/index.php
>>>>>
>>>>> mohan
>>>>>
>>>>> Umashankar Panda wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Sir,
>>>>>> Thank you for this release.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is very good. I have checked it. But one problem I which i can see
>>>>>> here is that it is not displaying the fonts properly and gives the
>>>>>> following error.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What is to be done?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> with regards.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> U. Panda
>>>>>>
>>>>>> VECC, India
>>>>>>
>>>>>> root@slax:/opt/epics/extensions/bin/linux-x86# ./medm
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> medmInit: Unable to load font widgetDM_4
>>>>>>  Trying default (fixed) instead
>>>>>>
>>>>>> medmInit: Unable to load font widgetDM_6
>>>>>>  Trying default (fixed) instead
>>>>>>
>>>>>> medmInit: Unable to load font widgetDM_8
>>>>>>  Trying default (fixed) instead
>>>>>>
>>>>>> medmInit: Unable to load font widgetDM_10
>>>>>>  Trying default (fixed) instead
>>>>>>
>>>>>> medmInit: Unable to load font widgetDM_12
>>>>>>  Trying default (fixed) instead
>>>>>>
>>>>>> medmInit: Unable to load font widgetDM_14
>>>>>>  Trying default (fixed) instead
>>>>>>
>>>>>> medmInit: Unable to load font widgetDM_16
>>>>>>  Trying default (fixed) instead
>>>>>>
>>>>>> medmInit: Unable to load font widgetDM_18
>>>>>>  Trying default (fixed) instead
>>>>>>
>>>>>> medmInit: Unable to load font widgetDM_20
>>>>>>  Trying default (fixed) instead
>>>>>>
>>>>>> medmInit: Unable to load font widgetDM_22
>>>>>>  Trying default (fixed) instead
>>>>>>
>>>>>> medmInit: Unable to load font widgetDM_24
>>>>>>  Trying default (fixed) instead
>>>>>>
>>>>>> medmInit: Unable to load font widgetDM_30
>>>>>>  Trying default (fixed) instead
>>>>>>
>>>>>> medmInit: Unable to load font widgetDM_36
>>>>>>  Trying default (fixed) instead
>>>>>>
>>>>>> medmInit: Unable to load font widgetDM_40
>>>>>>  Trying default (fixed) instead
>>>>>>
>>>>>> medmInit: Unable to load font widgetDM_48
>>>>>>  Trying default (fixed) instead
>>>>>>
>>>>>> medmInit: Unable to load font widgetDM_60
>>>>>>  Trying default (fixed) instead
>>>>>> MEDM Version 3.1.2.1: Loading aliased fonts.................
>>>>>> XtUngrabButton(displayDA,3,0)
>>>>>> root@slax:/opt/epics/extensions/bin/linux-x86# ./probe
>>>>>> Unable to load font!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Unable to load font1!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Unable to load font2!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Mauro Giacchini
>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear folks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> a first pre-release of LivEPICS using a USB key to boot is now
>>>>>>> available
>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>> general download and testing. That is equipped with Nagios 3.03
>>>>>>> pre-configured to be used like a NAL
>>>>>>> (http://www.lnl.infn.it/~epics/NAL.html).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The tarball containing all the stuff for this version is at
>>>>>>> http://www.lnl.infn.it/~epics/LivEPICS/Slackware/Slax6.0/
>>>>>>> The HowTo install on USB Key:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.lnl.infn.it/~epics/LivEPICS/Slackware/Slax6.0/howtoinstall.html
>>>>>>> The software included list:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.lnl.infn.it/~epics/LivEPICS/Slackware/Slax6.0/softwarelist.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mauro
>>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>> Mauro Giacchini
>>>>
>>>> Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro
>>>> V.le dell'Universita', 2
>>>> 35020 LEGNARO (PD) – ITALY
>>>> Tel. +39.049.8068558
>>>> Fax. +39.049.641925
>>>>
>>>> EPICS official distribution: LivEPICS
>>>> http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/distributions/index.php
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>
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>  Beam line Controls and Data Acquisition, Group Leader
>  Advanced Photon Source,   Argonne National Laboratory
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> -----------------------------------------------------------
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>
>
>
> ! MEDM widget font aliases
> !
> ! add to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias
> !
> widgetDM_4      5x7
> widgetDM_6      widgetDM_4
> widgetDM_8      5x8
> widgetDM_10     widgetDM_8
> widgetDM_12     6x10
> widgetDM_14     6x12
> widgetDM_16     7x14
> widgetDM_18     widgetDM_16
> widgetDM_20     8x16
> widgetDM_22     widgetDM_20
> widgetDM_24     10x20
> widgetDM_30     widgetDM_24
> widgetDM_36     12x24
> widgetDM_40     widgetDM_36
> widgetDM_48     widgetDM_40
> widgetDM_60     widgetDM_48
>
>

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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