Is there any chance that freetype should be working in woody? I just did a dist-upgrade (with a lot of rough spots) and am not having much luck with it or other proportional fonts. My test case is xman, since I noticed it got much better when I installed the true-type font server in olden days (potato).
I can't find the "backend" (described as "formerly xfsft"). If I did, I would still have sticking face numbers in my font.dirs file. I see no mention a program to do this or how it should (e.g., can I just pick a random face number?). When I installed XFree86 4.0.2 it kicked out references to the old true-type stuff (e.g., not port 7101 in the dir list, options are set for freetype not true type). So I gather that's the way we're supposed to go. But can we get there yet? XF86Config has a font server at 7100 as the first item, but I'm not sure if anything is running there--or if the new server now replaces the two I had previously (namely the regular and TT servers). Steps I've done so far: * Ugly install, with lots of --force-overwrite (known and corrected bug, apparently) * I installed fttools to get mkttfdir. * Edited my XF86Config--it had :unscaled still in it, and fixed before proportional fonts. * Created fonts/FreeType and put symlinks in it to my MS fonts. Ran mkttfdir and renamed output from fonts.dir to fonts.scale (the README.fonts implies it produces fonts.scale as output. I can't read the manpage because of another corrected bug). Anyway, I'm a little confused. If I can get the scaled fonts working, that would be great. If I find out I can't, that would still be nice, because then I wouldn't spend a lot of time on the problem. P.S. The libs I've got installed are v6 aka 2, but most of the other stuff is v2 aka 1.4.
