On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Mike Edenfield <kut...@kutulu.org> wrote: >> On 4/15/2010 2:25 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >>> I would also try media-fonts/freefont-ttf if you don't have that >>> installed. I decompiled the flash on that page and it's just using the >>> generic "_sans" font, which should let it use any sans-serif font on >>> your system. Maybe it can only use TTF fonts? I'm not really sure. >> >> Wierd. I have all the same fonts you do, plus a few extra, and still no >> text in that flash. Now that I know it's a font issue I might mess >> around with my fonts and see if I can figure out what it's problem is. > > I think the default font paths in Gentoo were changed around a few > months ago (at least in ~arch), as a last resort you may want to try > unmerging all font packages and then emerging them again, and > restarting X afterward. I don't remember if I had to edit font paths > when that happened or not... but maybe check that too. :)
Specifically I thnik it was changed from /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ to /usr/share/fonts/ Be sure the TTF path in your xorg.conf (if you have one) is pointing to the correct place.
