From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 13 22:16:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from akira.lanfear.com (akira.lanfear.com [208.12.11.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A31037B718 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:16:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlist@lanfear.com) Received: from sapporo.lanfear.com (h-64-105-36-216.snvacaid.covad.net [64.105.36.216]) by akira.lanfear.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA91473 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:16:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlist@lanfear.com) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:16:18 -0800 (PST) From: Marc W Message-Id: <200103140616.WAA91473@akira.lanfear.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: TrueType Fonts and 4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Kiltdown 0.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ARGH! I give up. After a good three hours of fiddling, I remain unable to get truetype fonts working with FreeBSD 4.2 and its X server. I tried the instructions in the FreeBSD handbook, except there is no "freetype" module in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/modules directory; per mailing list archives, I've fiddled with xfstt, except xfstt refuses to find anything, no matter what is put in /usr/share/fonts/truetype; and xfs refuses to do anything except crash if i put /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType in its search path in the config file. Amazingly enough, ttmkfdir seems to work just OK and lets me create fonts.dir files no problems. My understanding is that XFree86 4 (used in 4.2, I assume) is supposed to just 'work' with all this stuf ... ? So, the question is: What do YOU do to get TrueType fonts working in FreeBSD. I'll do my best to put together a little mini-HOWTO when I'm done. I've seen tonnes of questions on this in the Mailing List Archives, but few answers :-) thanks. marc. Marc W, San Francisco, CA Kiltdown -- a free email client for X www.kiltdown.org -- it's what's underneath that counts. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message