From 7d82873478fc932327b3b25e76c4eb3eb6dfeb46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dagen Brock <dagenbrock@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 14:06:33 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] add check for missing fonts

---
 src/xdriver.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/xdriver.c b/src/xdriver.c
index 1e83fa5..c2bd3fe 100644
--- a/src/xdriver.c
+++ b/src/xdriver.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <X11/keysym.h>
 #include <time.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
+#include <glog.h>
 #include <signal.h>
 
 #ifdef X_SHARED_MEM
@@ -596,6 +597,10 @@ dev_video_init()
 	}
 	fflush(stdout);
 	g_text_FontSt = XLoadQueryFont(g_display, FONT_NAME_STATUS);
+	if (g_text_FontSt == NULL) {
+		glog("Could not load font, possibly missing xorg-x11-fonts-misc");
+		exit(1);
+	}
 	vid_printf("font # returned: %08x\n", (word32)(g_text_FontSt->fid));
 	font_height = g_text_FontSt->ascent + g_text_FontSt->descent;
 	vid_printf("font_height: %d\n", font_height);