This works for me but your mileage may vary. Make sure you only have
reference to iso-8559-1 fonts in your fonts.dir file by deleting all the
others. Then make sure the number at the beginning of the file
represents only the number of fonts actually in the file.
Ken Wilson
First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is
irrelevant
(Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen Carville
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 8:14 PM
To: Mandrake Expert
Subject: [expert] True Type fonts in Mandrake.
Does anyone know how to get True Type fonts working with Mandrake 6.0?
After I figured out they were not on by default I tried to enable then
using xfs. I went to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts/ and ran
'ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale'. Then I used mkfontdir to create the
fonts.dir file. I restarted xfs and, viola! all of my subsequent
X-apps hung. I couldn't even log out of KDE; I had to go to a tty
screen and 'telinit 3' to get control back. When I tried 'telinit 5'
to restart X the server tried to start -- and tried and tried and
tried... This worked with xfstt on my RH 5.2 install but apparently
there is something else required for xfs.
I finally hit Crtl-Alt-Delete, booted to runlevel three and commented
out the ttfonts directory in /etc/X11/fs/config. I am back in
business but without True Type fonts
True Type is supposed to work in Mandrake but how?
--
Stephen Carville
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