On Thu. Sep. 19, 2002 at 23:19:54 -0500 GMT, a lone cry was heard from
Greg Macek
I've tried this and a lot of other things on my machine (7.3, XF4.2) to get my TTF working again, but no avail. Following the first part of the instructions below gets me a fonts.scale file that is around 26K in size, listing all the fonts in the truetype directory. That's fine. However, fonts.dir is still set to 2 bytes, only containing a "0".
(1) Go to the directory of your truetype fonts. (2) Run: ttmkfdir -o fonts.dir (3) Make sure that you have loaded the freetype module in the "Module" section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config, ie: load "freetype" (4) Make sure that the path of your truetype fonts is in the "Files" section. (5) If the truetype module was loaded before, run: xset fp rehash If the truetype module was not load before hand, restart X. These instructions only apply if you are not using a font server. Charles -- "Are [Linux users] lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of reliable, well-engineered commercial software?" (By Matt Welsh)