Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 06:45:35 -0500 (EST) From: paul@saxa.georgetown.edu To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Anti-aliasing in X [revisited] Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111160623510.2370-100000@saxa.georgetown.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110291749530.8288-100000@saxa.georgetown.edu>
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I upgraded X to 4.1.0_10, kde to 2.2.1 and reinstalled all the fonts. i now have all the fonts available but anti-aliasing still doesn't work. Are the X, qt and kde* all set to compile with anti-aliasing support, or do i need to add certain config options before making them? thanks, -P- On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 paul@saxa.georgetown.edu wrote: > > doh! should've caught that, thanks. i still haven't found the right > direction though :) i thought that that would at least "offer" me some > more fonts, but i still have the same ones available. > > -P- > > On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Martin Karlsson wrote: > > > Hi Paul! I think you may need the following in your XF86Config, in the > > section 'modules': > > > > Load "speedo" > > Load "type1" > > > > Not sure if this will help you, but it could at least lead in the right > > direction... :) > > > > Good luck, > > > > /Martin > > > > > > * paul@saxa.georgetown.edu (paul@saxa.georgetown.edu) wrote: > > > > > > Under XFree86-4.1.0_6 and KDE 2.2 (FreeBSD release 4.4), i can't seem to > > > get anti-aliased fonts working. I have anti-aliasing activated > > > in KDE. I have Type1, freefont and URW fonts installed, but I think the > > > problem could lie in the fact that they aren't being made available. > > > Here's what xset shows as my Font Path: > > > Font Path: > > > /home/john/.kde/share/fonts/override,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, > > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/home/john/.kde/share/fonts > > > > > > You can see that Type1, URW and freefont, aren't included. I've tried > > > running X with these fonts' paths uncommented in XF86Config, and then > > > commented, instead including them in XftConfig (as indicated in the > > > handbook) but the effects are identical. > > > I've also tried to add these dynamically with xset, and the following > > > happens: > > > > > > john\ ]@box:freefont\ ]$ xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/ > > > X Error of failed request: 86 > > > Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath) > > > Serial number of failed request: 9 > > > Current serial number in output stream: 11 > > > > > > > > > What follows are my XF86Config and XftConfig, from /etc/X11/. > > > > > > -------------- > > > #Start /etc/X11/XF86Config > > <snip> > > > > > > Section "Module" > > > Load "GLcore" > > > Load "dbe" > > > Load "dri" > > > Load "extmod" > > > Load "glx" > > > Load "pex5" > > > Load "record" > > > Load "xie" > > > Load "freetype" > > > EndSection > > > > > > Section "InputDevice" > > > Identifier "Keyboard0" > > > Driver "keyboard" > > > EndSection > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > ------------------ > > > Many thanks, > > > > > > -P- > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ~~~ Martin Karlsson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ martin.karlsson@visit.se ~~~ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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