Re: Font corruption under XF86 4.0
I think the problem is that xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi are not
downloaded with dist-upgrade for some reason, as this sounds like how my
display looked with just xfonts-base installed.
-Rob
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 06:55:41AM -0800, Rick Loga wrote:
> Are you using the xfs-xtt font server or the xfs font server? You refer to both. AFAIK only the xfs font server works with version 4 and to use it you do need unix/:7100 in the front of the font paths. X starts with the first line and if it doesn't work, it tries the next line, etc.
>
> --- Daishi Harada <daishi@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
> > wrote:
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >I recently moved from stable to testing, and in the process to XF86
> >(4.0.2-1). The problem that I am having is that fonts/text seem to get
> >corrupted/not properly refreshed; i.e., when I originally type text
> >everything is fine, but if I occlude the text (e.g. with another
> >window) and then bring the text window to the foreground the fonts
> >become corrupted (the fonts looks like they're missing some
> >scanlines). Has anyone encountered with problem/know a solution?
> >
> >I'm using the neomagic driver (for a Thinkpad 560x). I'm using xfs-xtt
> >for my font server, and played with the config there a bit, and am
> >pretty sure that's not the issue. Speaking of which, however, does
> >anyone know why fonts look worse through xfs? I put the same paths in
> >/etc/X11/xfs/config's "catalogue" field as I have in XF86Config's
> >FontPath fields, but if I go through xfs (i.e., if I have "unix/:7100"
> >listed as the first FontPath) the same fonts look different than when
> >I put the "unix/:7100" last.
> >
> >Please cc me with any replies,
> >Thanks, Daishi
> >
> >
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