Re: Bad fonts after upgrade to X4.3
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Moseley" <moseley@hank.org>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 6:55 PM
Subject: Bad fonts after upgrade to X4.3
> I upgraded to X4.3 and now larger fonts are blocky. Look at the "Not
> Found" at http://hank.org/images/blocky.png
>
> I've listed below my files section. I used dpkg-reconfigure to create
a new
> XF86Config-4 file from the 4.3 package (assuming that the configure
> script would best know how to configure X).
>
>
>
> Section "Files"
> RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
> # Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
> # FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
> # FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
> # True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see
/etc/X11/XftConfig!
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/CID"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
> EndSection
>
>
>
> I have to say I'm really sick of screwing with fonts. Can someone
> explain why, in 2003, fonts are such a pain in the ass to get working?
> And why and "end user" needs to mess with it at all?
I think a lot of people feel this pain. And i agree it's unnecessary.
Hopefully the debian desktop project will take care of these kinds
of problems.
Benedict
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