On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:03:46PM +0100, Ivan Todoroski wrote: > I also ran into this problem, here are some more details: > > I can confirm the problem persists in the 4.2.1 packages, but with a different > font than Aleksandra (also I'm using "radeon" driver whereas she uses "nv"). > > The font is a bitmap font named "tixus" and comes from an old debian package > called "xfonts-gimpers" which is not in the debian archive any more. I'm > attaching the small 3kB font file to this message. > > To reproduce this problem you can put it in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, run > update-fonts-dir on that directory, and then restart X. > > Try running first "xfontsel -pattern -gimpers-tixus-*-*-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*". > > You will notice that the font displays correctly using size of 10 pixels which > is it's native size. But as soon as you try it with size different than 10 pix > it will crash the X server. > > I'm guessing that the font Aleksandra was using contained the same thing that > triggered this bitmap-font-resize bug in XFree 4.2.1. The reason that the font > sometimes worked and sometimes crashed her X server is that she was probably > using the font at its native size in her xterm consoles, but she forced it to > be rendered at a non-native size (18) with xfontsel. I could be wrong of > course, but atleast on my machine X consistently crashes when using the font > at non-native size, regardless if it's xterm or xfontsel or any other client. > > That's about all I can think of, I'd be happy to provide any more information > you might need. I cannot reproduce this problem at all with xfree86 4.2.1-6 using the font you provided. Can you still reproduce it with 4.2.1-6 or later? -- G. Branden Robinson | You live and learn. Debian GNU/Linux | Or you don't live long. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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