One other thing, for other people who may be having a problem -- with the latest xserver package, it seems that loading the freetype module kills X for some reason. So I leave out that module in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and instead install xfs -- once again I have truetype fonts.
Regards, -- Kevin McCarty Physics Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] Princeton University www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty Princeton, NJ 08544