Re: xtt/freetype grumpy
Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> writes:
Huh. Well, that would make sense.
Except that I definitely had both modules loaded with X4.1. I didn't
touch my XF86Config-4 file after pulling down the X4.2, and thus the
failure. I removed the xtt module, and it worked.
Maybe X4.1 throws a soft error, and works anyway, whereas X4.2 throws
a hard error and bails. Well, whatever. It seems to work, and
nothing's misbehaving. (Well, my video card is a peice of crap, but
that's another story.)
^_^
Russell
> On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 11:30, Russell Neches wrote:
> >
> > I just installed the sid X4.2 packages and freetype6_2.1.1-3 on my
> > (i386) debian testing box. I nuked xie and pex5 with dpkg-reconfigure,
> > as seems appropriate given that they're not part of X4.2.
> >
> > However, X still refused to start on account of a duplicate symbol for
> > freetype in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libxtt.a. Removing xtt from
> > the configuration "fixed" the problem.
> >
> > Now, I know that there are folks out there who didn't run into this.
> > Any ideas what might be wrong? Did I slurp the wrong freetype6
> > packages?
>
> No, you simply can't load both the xtt and freetype font renderers,
> don't think you ever could. I think most people prefer freetype.
>
>
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> Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
> XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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