ttmkfdir in the ttf dir :) Add the path to your fonts section in XF86Config, freetype to the modules section (you already did both, it seems) & you're there.
================================================== Paul Sims ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SpireLUG - the Chesterfield Linux User Group www.spirelug.org.uk ================================================== On 4 Nov 2000, John S. J. Anderson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greetings -- > > Did the XFree86 upgrade last night. Wasn't too bad; if I hadn't > mis-remembered the video card in this box, I think it would have been > seamless. As it was, I had to do some reading and playing around to > get /etc/X11/XF86Config set up the right way. > > Once I got it working, however, I was quite impressed. It's noticeably > faster than XFree 3.3.6 on window movement and screen redraws, even > with the old 4 MB Trident card I've got. > > The one thing I had trouble figuring out was my fonts. I've got a slew > of various TrueType fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype. I was using > xfstt to serve them via port 7101, but from what I can gather, the > Right Way under the XFree86 4 is to use one of the TrueType > backends. I had > > Load "freetype" > > in my XF86Config, and I added the directory as a FontPath, but I > still didn't have access to those TrueType fonts. > > Reading a bit between the lines in the docu, I figured out that I > needed to do a 'mkfontdir' in my TrueType directory -- but 'mkfontdir' > didn't seem to want to work. > > Turning to Google, I found > <URL:http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/newbie/2000-June/000017.html>, > which lead me to ttmkfdir, which I downloaded via > <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/ttmkfdir/> > > I already had the freetype2 and freetype2-dev packages installed, so > getting ttmkfdir to build was not too hard -- I had to add > '-I/usr/include/freetype' to the CFLAGS line in the Makefile, and then > 'make' built the binary. > > I then ran 'ttmkfdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ > fonts.scale', which > built the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files. > > However, upon restarting X, I still can't see any of my TrueType > fonts. > > Does anybody out there have a clue to spare on this issue? > > TIA, > john. > > - -- > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]------><URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]------><URL:http://genehack.org> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard > > iD8DBQE6BDVuWRJRdOm3KFARAvQUAJ9MzB3yFHoKTqMugT2OR6IusES0SgCfR/Km > hQ/hQsP8tNBPLScme+YWT7c= > =PMcc > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
