on startup no fonts, just little empty boxes

on startup no fonts, just little empty boxes

[ken]

Just upgraded CentOS to (uname) "Linux 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.plus #1 SMP
Fri Oct 9 12:34:43 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux" and since then,
when emacs (version 21.4.1) starts up (using emacs -Q), where there
should be text there are only little empty boxes, each the size of
character.  The error message reads:

Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct


What's emacs doing or trying to do?

tia for any help.

-- 
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        --William Blake

Re: on startup no fonts, just little empty boxes

[ken]

On 10/25/2009 04:58 PM ken wrote:
> Just upgraded CentOS to (uname) "Linux 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.plus #1 SMP
> Fri Oct 9 12:34:43 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux" and since then,
> when emacs (version 21.4.1) starts up (using emacs -Q), where there
> should be text there are only little empty boxes, each the size of
> character.  The error message reads:
> 
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
> 
> 
> What's emacs doing or trying to do?
> 
> tia for any help.
> 

Thanks for the assistance.  :P  I couldn't solve the problem, so I
solved the problem by reviving an emacs 23.1.1 that I compiled myself
some months back.  And after all the diddling I did with the Fontconfig
subsystem, the fonts I'm seeing now are much more pleasant than what I
was getting with it before.  So it (the 23.1.1 version) must be using
the newer font subsystem while the 21.4.1 version is using the core X
stuff (which I haven't yet dug into).  If anyone can disagree, how does
one come to know?