Dear All, I have a windows application running under wine on my Linux machine (Ubuntu 8.04, with wine 0.9.61). When the application starts it complains about a font called Fixedsys not being available. I can click thro the message and the application starts no problem and appears to be working correctly, so this issue isn't a show stopper, just an annoyance and is the last thing before this very old windows application runs smoothly under wine and Linux. I can find no Fixedsys.fon file on the web and nothing except that Fixedsys is (was?) a windows system font. A friend has found an entry for it in his XP registry, [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontMapper] "FIXEDSYS"=dword:00009000 Searching in the wine registry for "fixedsys" brings up nothing. Can anyone shed any light on this? Thank you for your help Hilary
dreamstogo skrev:> I can find no Fixedsys.fon file on the web and nothing except that Fixedsys is (was?) a windows system font. A friend has found an entry for it in his XP registry,It's actually a virtual font name. On Windows, it's provided by vgafix.fon for standard resolution and 8514fix.fon for high resolution.
Thank you Ove, I have copied these fonts to the windows/Fonts directory and restarted the application, same problem. Do I have to do anything else? Hilary
Thank you again Ove, I am using an English language setup. I was doing a debug on the program when your message arrived. Here is an excerpt from the windebug=+fonts dump, trace:font:AddFontToList Loading font file "/home/hilary/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/Fonts/vgafix.fon" index 0 warn:font:AddFontToList Unable to load font "/home/hilary/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/Fonts/vgafix.fon"/(nil) err = 2 trace:font:AddFontToList Loading font file "/usr/bin/../lib/../share/wine/fonts/vgafix.fon" index 0 warn:font:AddFontToList Unable to load font "/usr/bin/../lib/../share/wine/fonts/vgafix.fon"/(nil) err = 1 The file vgafix.fon is in windows/Fonts, as reported earlier. I'm wondering whether the file I have is correct; it is 2.7KB dated 1994/12/08. Now, I do have a windows2000 box, so I turned it on to see if I could compare the vgafix.fon on the Ubuntu box with the windows version. I can find no vgafix.fon anywhere on the windows box. The string is found if I do a registry search on the windows box. Are these fonts available for download anywhere? I have used winetricks to install the corefonts but it doesn't install vgafix.fon.
OK, I solved my problem. As I started to suspected in my last post above, I had a wrong file in vgafix.fon. I downloaded freewin.zip which contains the system fonts and loaded them to the windows/Fonts folder. My application now runs perfectly with no error messages under wine. Thank you for your help and support