RE: using ttf fonts crashes X
I've 'always' been able to get ttf fonts working in X regardless of
freetype by using the 'xtt' backend. Add that to you options and
remove the freetype extension and it should work. See the docs,
since there is some extra font index work you need to do. Oh, this
does -not- work with the font server.
Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Larrick [mailto:doug@ties.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 8:24 AM
> To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: using ttf fonts crashes X
>
>
> On 2002.11.20 07:37 Falk Hueffner wrote:
> > Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha@debian.org> writes:
> >
> > > I've faced the problem described in
> > >
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2002/debian-alpha-200208/msg00056.html
> > > on woody.
> > >
> > > Is it known to be solved in X 4.2, which are in unstable?
> >
> > I think it is worked around there by using different compiler flags,
> > but I'm not sure. How can I test it?
>
> Hi, I'm the guy who originally reported this problem.
>
> This bug is *not* fixed in X 4.2. There is no easy way to
> automatically compile the offending code with optimization turned off,
> without turning off optimization for the entire X server (which would
> be a disaster).
>
> X 4.3 *may* fix the problem since it has switched to FreeType 2, but
> our best hope is for a speedy gcc 3.2 transition. Gcc 3.2 does not
> have the bug that causes this problem.
>
> -Doug
>
>
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