I've successfully upgraded from Suse 6.3 to Suse 7.0 and want to start using some of the truetype fonts I was using with XFree 3 with the new XFree 4. However, I can't seem to get them installed. The installation is a pristine Suse 7 system straight out of the box. The command XFree86 - showconfig gives the following: adrian@laotzu:/etc/X11 > XFree86 -showconfig XFree86 Version 4.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 8 March 2000 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: SuSE Linux [ELF] SuSE Module Loader present and the relevant sections of the XF86Config are Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" EndSection Section "Module" Load "speedo" Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "dbe" Load "freetype" EndSection So as far as I can see everything is set up to use the freetype engine and truetype fonts. I successfully installed the freefonts and sharefonts collections and they work fine. To install a truetype font I did the following: 1) Put the font into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype 2) made sure that the filename was all lower case (e.g. peigno.ttf) 3) Ran ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale 4) Ran mkfontdir 5) Now I have a fonts.dir file which looks fine, i.e. 2 peigno.ttf -2Rebels-Peignot-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0 peigno.ttf -2Rebels-Peignot-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 6) If I try to run xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype then I get the following error: adrian@laotzu:~ > xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype xset: bad font path element (#37), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax 7) xset q returns the following for the font path: Font Path: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont which does NOT have the truetype directory in it, even though it is in the XF86Config file. So where am I screwing up? Any suggestions from those who have truetype working with Suse 7 would be much appreciated since I've been banging my head on this for a couple of days now. Many thanks, Adrian Adrian Burd, Dpt. Oceanography, Texas A&M University http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~ecomodel