Thanks Branden for all your great work! In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on "Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:45:17 -0500", with "Re: Place of X RESOURCE files (xfree86_4.0.1)", Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I will apply your patch for phase2v20, and we'll see if it works. Thanks > very much for your contribution. It will do work well for us, I think. I'll check it when I can get libglide3-dev from somewhere and can build it locally (currently I can not find libglide3 and libglide3-dev). BTW, you wrote on debian-x at Sun, 16 Jul 2000: <http://lists.debian.org/debian-x-0007/msg00016.html> | On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 12:49:16AM +0900, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote: | > Perhaps we'll change default setting of glyph caching mode to apply this | > patch and rebuild xfree86-1. | > | > --- xc/include/fonts/font.h.orig Thu Jul 13 00:36:53 2000 | > +++ xc/include/fonts/font.h Thu Jul 13 00:37:56 2000 | > @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ | > #define CACHING_OFF 0 | > #define CACHE_16_BIT_GLYPHS 1 | > #define CACHE_ALL_GLYPHS 2 | > -#define DEFAULT_GLYPH_CACHING_MODE CACHING_OFF | > +#define DEFAULT_GLYPH_CACHING_MODE CACHE_16_BIT_GLYPHS | > extern int glyphCachingMode; | > | > extern int StartListFontsWithInfo( | | That's interesting; thanks for pointing it out. I'm trying to avoid | further changes to the upstream source for 3.3.6-10, but I'll be interested | to see what the default for this is in 4.0.1. If you're not subscribed to | debian-x, please do so and keep me on my toes with respect to i18n issues | with the new version of X. I expect to have Phase 1 .debs (see URL below) | available this week. I have checked the source tree of ph2v18, and v20 diff.gz, and I think this patch can be applied for current 4.0.1 ph2v20 tree. The necessity of this pacth is desribed in <http://lists.debian.org/debian-x-0007/msg00007.html> | > On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:05:00PM -0600, Anthony Fok wrote: | > | > > I am glad that you somehow found out "-deferglyphs 16". :-) This option | > > "defers" the loading of 16-bit glyphs e.g. large CJK and Unicode fonts. | > > Otherwise, X would try to load the _entire_ font (with 14000+ glyphs) | > > into the memory all at once. This soon crashes the X font server, | > > and since X can't talk to the font server any more, it just freezes whenever | > > a font is requested. At this state, X would use up all the CPU resources, | > > probably trying desperately to talk to a non-existent font server. :-) | > | > If I understand your description correctly this option is never harmful but | > very useful for some setups. Don't you think that the Debian setup should | > pass this option per default? In that case please ask Branden if he can | > do that (or file a bug, severity wishlist, on xserver-common). Please consider this also for your 4.0.1 package. Thanks. -- Taketoshi Sano: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
