Re: B&W display and emacs21

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 23 Oct 2001, Gerd Moellmann wrote:

> Adam <adam@cfar.umd.edu> writes:
> 
> > > |> > > [adam@pepsi adam]$ /usr/local/emacs21/bin/emacs
> > > |> > > No fonts match `-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'
> > > |> [adam@pepsi adam]$ /usr/local/emacs21/bin/emacs -fn '10x20'
> > > |>        No fonts match 
> > > `-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'
> > >
> > > Do you have a resource for Emacs*Fontset-0 (or similar) that contains this
> > > pattern?  Emacs 20 only checked those patterns when the fontset was
> > > actually used, Emacs 21 apparently checks all fontsets at startup.
> > 
> > 'xrdb -q' returns nothing. 'grep -i emacs ~.???*' does not not return
> > anything interesting, as does checking out /usr/X11/lib/X11/app-def (or
> > something like that ) does not return results as well. I did even strace
> > on emacs to see what files it opens but no hints.
> 
> After some grepping, I found a fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16 in the
> definition of the standard fontset (variable standard-fontset-spec) in
> international/fontset.el.  Kenichi, does that ring a bell?

Does the entry in etc/PROBLEMS names "Emacs fails to start, complaining 
about missing fonts" help?