Re: [TCLUG:17204] X 4.0 and fonts

[Tim Sandquist <tsandqui@yahoo.com>]

You have to load modules for different font rasterisers.
For Type1 fonts, for instance, you need to load the 'type1'
module.  (I found this out looking at the man page for
XF86Config)  I'm sure you have to load a module for TT 
fonts as well but I'm not sure what the name of it is.

Tim

On Thu, 4 May 2000, Ben Beuchler wrote:

> I just installed X 4.0 on a new install of Slack 7.0.  The odd issue is
> how it's handling the fontpaths in XF86Config.  Specifically, it isn't.
> During the boot process, it is deciding it doesn't like some of the
> directories listed in the font paths section.
> 
> Here is the 'fontpaths' entries from my XF86Config:
> 
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
> 
> And here are the errors during the X startup process:
> 
> <snip>
> Removing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts/ from the valid list of
> fontpaths
> Removing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ from the valid list of fontpaths
> Removing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ from the valid list of fontpaths
> <snip>
> 
> They all have exactly the same ownership and perms and they all contain
> fonts.dir and fonts.scale entries.
> 
> Any ideas?  
> 
> Ben
> 
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