Re: Ugly Fonts SOLVED

[Patrick Kirk <patrick@kirks.net>]

On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 13:07, Simon Hepburn wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 12:40 pm, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> >

> 
> This is probably a matter of configuring the fonts your browser uses. Send me 
> your latest  XF86Config-4 anyway, I'll take a look. One other thing, did you 
> prepare your truetype directory yourself or did you use package msttcorefonts 
> ? Can you display truetype fonts now ?
> 
> Simon Hepburn.

Hi Simon,

I installed a text only potato system and went straight to sid to get
galeon and evolution.  Along the way, I rather carelessly installed X
with only the xfonts-base and 100 and 75 dpi fonts.  So Freetype was
completely missing.

Your unix 7100 entry made me think I'd missed something pretty
fundamental along the way and I had.  X was not using XFS.  I didn't
have xfstt installed.  the combination means that I was basically not
using the fonts that were on the disk.

thanks for taking the time.

Of courde I found it too late but there's a Debian Fonts minihowto on
the LDP site.