Re: Latest woody upgrade to causes fonts in X to disappear
Thus spake Bob Nielsen:
> I did an 'apt-get upgrade' to my testing system yesterday and got > 50
> MB of upgraded packages(!)
>
> This upgrade included version 4.10 of X. I notice now that on a large
> number of applications, such as the Gnome desktop and applications
> which have pop-up or drop-down menus, that the text has been replaced
> by squares (in fact, this makes Gnome essentially unusable; switching
> to kde restored much of the functionality). I assume this means that a
> particular font got messed up by the upgrade, but I really don't know
> where to look. Has anyone else seen this (and found a solution)?
>
> Bob
I'm not sure exactly where the problem lies, but I noticed when I
rebuilt my kernel a few weeks ago for USB (I just used the newest,
2.4.9) that there was a note in the /drivers/char/drm section that
it was being specifically set up for X 4.1.x, which I wasn't using
at the time. I had to replace the contents of that directory with
a patch to make my xserer fonts and GL screen servers and so forth
run normally. Now that woody did the upgrade, I went back,
reinserted all the original stuff, recompiled, and voila! All is
well. Again, I don't know how much of this applies to your problem,
and I realize I'm being a little long-winded, but it looks to me
like a new DRM setup, and it may just be a mismatch issue. Other
people may have more helpful things to say, however.
Good luck,
Steve
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