Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Pete Jemian <[email protected]> · Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:25:21 -0500

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

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Fax. +39.049.641925
EPICS official distribution: LivEPICS
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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
Industrial Control System