i think here is the source of the confusion: X 4.0 does NOT need a truetype font server to display true type fonts. however, it will take fonts from wherever you tell it to, so if you tell it to look for fonts at ports A and B (which happen to be bound against xfs and xfstt) then so be it. for whatever reason, you X server isn't serving up TT fonts. you could either fix whatever is wrong, or use xfs and xfstt to serve up fonts the 'old' way. just surmising... pete ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux To err is human, to forgive is divine. p@belial.ucdavis.edu - To oink is porcine, to meow is feline. http://www.dirac.org/p ._. To neigh is equine to howl is lupine, /v\ To moo is bovine to bleat is ovine. // \\ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ^^ ^^ GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D rules On Wed 13 Dec 00, 11:07 AM, Jon Pennington said... > Rick Loga wrote: > > > > I have read many howto's and they are conflicting. One says tt fonts are built-in, whatever that means, another says they come from the xfs server. One says use ttmkfdir, another says mkttfdir works fine. Currently there is a line referring to port 7100 before the list of font paths in my XF86Config-4 file. I also have xfs running. I also have the tt font path added to the list and I copied the tt fonts from my W95 widnows/font directory, made them all lower case and ran ttmkfdir to create a fonts.dir file. Another howto says to create a fonts.scale file and sort it. One doc says to use the binary in the tar file for ttmkfdir, another says to compile the source with certain options. I probably have a mixture now that won't work. My next attempt is to comment out the port 7100 line and stop xfs. I think this is the "built-in" way. If that don't work, I guess I'll create the fonts.scale file using a newly compiled ttmkfdir. > > # apt-get install xfs xfstt > > # vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: > > Section "Files" > FontPath "unix/:7100" # xfs server > FontPath "unix/:7101" # xfstt server > > # cp /path/to/ttfs/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype > # /etc/init.d/xfstt restart > > $ xset fp rehash > $ netscape & > > You should now have a working xfstt TrueType Font Server.
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