I have had this problem. In fact doing even xfontsel and selecting *some* of the fonts killed xserver.

the work around is to comment a line that says

#Load "freetype"

in your XF86Config-4

Wow, that's a little strong... it means disabling truetype fonts support in the server.

Let me know if you this works for you. Or, you find a better work-around then this.

Usually my workaround is to delete the various fonts.dir and fonts.scale files, and have SuSEconfig recreate them. Sometimes one of the fonts is really corrupted and kills freetype anyway... so I remove that font from the disk and all is ok. Ciao, Roberto