Re: font problem - please help!
Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> Takehiko Abe wrote:
>
>> Zach wrote:
>> <snip>
>> fwiw my xorg.conf does not have a fontpath entry, and I don't have
>> much problem with fonts (or I have the same problem as you, but have
>> not noticed it.)
>>
>> From /usr/share/doc/xorg/changelog.Debian.gz :
>>
>> | * Don't write the files section of xorg.conf by default. If the user
>> | does want to write the files section, don't write out any font
>> | paths, only write out the font server bit if they specify that.
>> | + This will depend on having xserver-xorg-core version
>> | 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-3 which includes a patch to always look in the
>> | default font paths by default. Bump the xserver-xorg dependency
>> | on xserver-xorg-core to this version.
>>
>>
>> and my xorg log shows:
>>
>> (==) FontPath set to:
>> /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
>> /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
>> /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
>> /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
>> /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
>> /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi
> Hi Takehiko,
> my changelog doesn't say this. I have changelog version xorg (1:7.1.0-18)
> although I'm actually running xserver-xorg 7.2-5.
> My xorg log shows (**) instead of (==) which is reasonable since the font
> paths are found in xorg.conf. I'll try commenting out all my fonts in
> xorg.conf and see what happens.
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
Yes, Takehiko. I removed all the font paths from xorg.conf and now my
Xorg.0.log looks exactly like yours and the fonts seem ok so far. You were
perfectly correct. Thanks I learned something.
Jonathan
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