Hallo Patrick, hallo Forum
die Antwort kommt vielleicht etwas spät, aber da google diese Seite immernoch als eine der ersten Treffer listet hier nochmal der Link zur Lösung:

Bitte beachten, dass wenn in der '/etc/X11/XF86config'
"PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE"
steht das durchaus seinen Sinn hat! ;-)
Was der Patch für Nebenwirkungen auf yast oder sax2 hat kann ich leider nicht sagen.

Getestet habe ich es auf einem SUSE Linux 9.2 mit
xorg-x11 6.8.1-15.1
xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi 6.8.1-15.5

Hier der Text von der IBM Webseite (den Link findet ihr am Ende):
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Error Messages

Emulator will not start, font error indicated.

The emulator uses scalable 75 and 100 DPI fonts. If scalable fonts are not found an attempt to use a fixed font is made. Even if a fixed font is found and used, for proper full screen and size support, the X server should be configured to use scalable fonts.

The error returned should look similar too:

"*****Check your /etc/X11/XF86Config file*****
-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-0-* scalable fonts are not available.
*****Using fixed fonts******.
Or
Check your /etc/X11/XF86Config file.
-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-* fixed and scalable fonts are not available. Session not starting.

For either of the above messages, 75 and 100 dpi fonts need to be made available. The default font server is configured usually in one of the following two ways:

1. The "XFree86Config" File

The global XFree86 config file "XF86Config" or "XF86Config-4" is located in the /etc or /etc/X11 directories. The user may also have ".XF86Config" or ".XF86Config-4" (user config version) in his home directory.

If the following is in the XF86Config, the font server is configured here and is not configured to use 75 and 100 dpi scaled fonts.
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"

To enable 75 and 100 dpi scalable fonts, change the above two lines to look like this:
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"

2. Font server (xfs) "config" file

If the XF86Config file contains a single line similar to the following, then look for the file "config" in /etc/X11/fs directory:
FontPath "unix/:7100"

Similar to the steps above find the lines and remove the ":unscaled" from the lines for 75 and 100 dpi fonts.

For example change:
catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/korean,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,

to look like this:
catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/korean,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,

Then restart the X server.
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Quelle:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver...ide/#5250_faqs