Installing Angband on 14.0

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VulcanRidr

In a fit of, for lack of a better term, retro-ness, I decided that I wanted to install and play Angband. I installed from pkg, as I am wont to do, and it installed angband and 13 font packages:
Code: 
New packages to be INSTALLED:
        angband: 4.2.2 [FreeBSD]
        font-arabic-misc: 1.0.3_4 [FreeBSD]
        font-cursor-misc: 1.0.3_4 [FreeBSD]
        font-daewoo-misc: 1.0.3_4 [FreeBSD]
        font-dec-misc: 1.0.3_4 [FreeBSD]
        font-isas-misc: 1.0.3_4 [FreeBSD]
        font-jis-misc: 1.0.3_4 [FreeBSD]
        font-micro-misc: 1.0.3_4 [FreeBSD]
        font-misc-misc: 1.1.2_4 [FreeBSD]
        font-mutt-misc: 1.0.3_4 [FreeBSD]
        font-schumacher-misc: 1.1.2_4 [FreeBSD]
        font-sony-misc: 1.0.3_4 [FreeBSD]
        font-sun-misc: 1.0.3_4 [FreeBSD]
        xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps: 7.7 [FreeBSD]

However, when I try to fire up angband, it spits out the error, angband: Couldn't load the requested font. (10x20). I found that in addidion to the dozen font packages it installed, it also included a bunch of fonts in
/usr/local/share/angband/fonts/. So I added the directory to /usr/local/etc/X11/fontpath.d/:
Code: 
Section "Files"
  FontPath "/usr/local/share/angband/fonts/"
EndSection

as that is where Xorg.0.conf says the catalogue is at. I restarted X, and am still getting the same errors. Note that all of the fonts in /usr/local/share/angband/fonts are .fon format, which are basically executables or dlls. The Handbook states that "The .fot is used by Windows® as sort of a symbolic link to the actual TrueType® font (.ttf) file. The .fon font files are also used by Windows.I know of no way to use this font format with FreeBSD."

So how can I get angband to run?

Thanks,
--vr
 
VulcanRidr said:
So how can I get angband to run?
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In a virtual console, not Xorg.

VulcanRidr said:
it also included a bunch of fonts in
/usr/local/share/angband/fonts/. So I added the directory to /usr/local/etc/X11/fontpath.d/:
Code: 
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/local/share/angband/fonts/"
EndSection
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That's not how fontpath.d works, see FONTPATH.D in Xserver(1) manual.

A xorg FontPath configuration file as the above created belongs under /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d.

But for games/angband a font path doesn't need to be specified, it's already set to default, or can be defined to another location.
Rich (BB code): 
 % angband -help
Usage: angband [options] [-- subopts]
  -n             Start a new character (WARNING: overwrites default savefile without -u)
  -l             Lists all savefiles you can play
  -w             Resurrect dead character (marks savefile)
  -g             Request graphics mode
  -x<opt>        Debug options; see -xhelp
  -u<who>        Use your <who> savefile
  -d<dir>=<path> Override a specific directory with <path>. <path> can be:
    scores (default is /home/spider//.angband/Angband/scores)
    gamedata (default is /usr/local/etc/angband/gamedata)
    screens (default is /usr/local/share/angband/screens)
    help (default is /usr/local/share/angband/help)
    info (default is /home/spider//.angband/Angband/info)
    pref (default is /usr/local/etc/angband/customize)
    fonts (default is /usr/local/share/angband/fonts)
    tiles (default is /usr/local/share/angband/tiles)
    sounds (default is /usr/local/share/angband/sounds)
    icons (default is /usr/local/share/angband/icons)
    user (default is /home/spider//.angband/Angband)
    save (default is /home/spider//.angband/Angband/save)
    archive (default is /home/spider//.angband/Angband/archive)
                 Multiple -d options are allowed.
  -m<sys>        Use module <sys>, where <sys> can be:
     x11   Basic X11, subopts -d<display> -n<windows> -x<file>
     gcu   Text mode, subopts
              -B     Use brighter bold characters
              -D     Use terminal default background color
              -nN    Use N terminals (up to 6)
 
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