Re: X font trouble
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, I Brake for Moths wrote:
> I was beginning to suspect that the .gz might be the problem when I
> discovered that 'mkfontdir' is actually NOT working. It just returns
> without complaint, but it does not write a fonts.dir file. I believe
> that this is because the .gz extension is preventing it from recognizing
> the font files. Easy enough to test, but I don't have access to my Linux
> box right now . . . As is, the xfnt*.deb installation produces a
> fonts.dir that refers to the font files using the .gz extension.
>
> I am using XFree86. Does anyone know whether XFree86 recently changed to
> support gzipped font files, so that I might have an out-of-date version?
I believe support for gzipped fonts was new in either 3.3 of 3.2. Anyway,
all XFree86 packages you install should have at least the same upstream
version (3.2, 3.3, etc.). I assume you can use 3.3-X fonts on any 3.3-Y
version of the other XFree86 packages, but installing the exact same
version in always safe and should always work automatically.
Remco
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