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by **Spencer G. Stanto** » Thu, 03 Feb 2000 04:00:00

Hello. I am having a problem using RedHat 6.1 with true type fonts. I
have done all of the things I was supposed to do based on the faqs.
They all worked just fine doing an xfs restart... the problem that is
coming up is when I brought down the machine and brought back up, once
it was supposed to go into my X login screen, the screen would
continually flash with junk on it and I couldn't get to any login prompt
of any kind. I even tried the interactive start, didn't load the X
server or the font server and came up with the same thing. I rebuilt
the system from scratch and just out of curiosity tried to install true
type fonts again... this time to make sure that's where the problem was
I just did a restart then and the same problem occurred.

Does anyone know what could be the reasons that adding true type could
cause problems on a system reboot, but not just an xfs restart and a
possible solution?

Thank you all in advance.

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by **<coat..** » Fri, 04 Feb 2000 04:00:00

> >Hello. I am having a problem using RedHat 6.1 with true type fonts. I
> >have done all of the things I was supposed to do based on the faqs.
> >They all worked just fine doing an xfs restart... the problem that is
> >coming up is when I brought down the machine and brought back up, once
> >it was supposed to go into my X login screen, the screen would
> >continually flash with junk on it and I couldn't get to any login
> >prompt of any kind. I even tried the interactive start, didn't load
> >the X server or the font server and came up with the same thing. I
> >rebuilt the system from scratch and just out of curiosity tried to
> >install true type fonts again... this time to make sure that's where
> >the problem was I just did a restart then and the same problem
> >occurred.

> If xfs fails to start, so will X since no fonts are available. Did you
> check message log? Might be a clue there.

> >Does anyone know what could be the reasons that adding true type could
> >cause problems on a system reboot, but not just an xfs restart and a
> >possible solution?

> Maybe this helps.

> http://216.78.197.97/xstuff/xfs.html#trouble

> Just speculating -- there is a bad font(s) that causing
> problems. Did you refresh the X fontpath too when you restarted xfs?
> That might possibly answer why it doesn't crash on the restart.

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Try xfstt ... you can find it at www.linuxberg.com under X11 > software >
servers ... I think it is the easiest truetype font solution.

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by **Mattias Dahlber** » Fri, 04 Feb 2000 04:00:00

Quote:> Try xfstt ... you can find it at www.linuxberg.com under X11
> software servers ... I think it is the easiest truetype font solution.

When XF86 4.0 is here, which has true type support built in, can we expect
out of the box nice looking true type fonts in Netscape and all over? Are
there any "free" true type fonts, by the way? If there are, do they look
similar to the ones in Windows?

Matt

by **Hal Burgi** » Sat, 05 Feb 2000 04:00:00

>> Try xfstt ... you can find it at www.linuxberg.com under X11
>> software servers ... I think it is the easiest truetype font solution.

>When XF86 4.0 is here, which has true type support built in, can we
>expect out of the box nice looking true type fonts in Netscape and all
>over? Are there any "free" true type fonts, by the way? If there are,
>do they look similar to the ones in Windows?

Just get MS's free web fonts. Work fine. There are on their website. If
you need to unzip in linux, get the ones for win3.1.

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by **M. Valkie** » Mon, 07 Feb 2000 04:00:00

Quote:> Hello. I am having a problem using RedHat 6.1 with true type fonts. I
> have done all of the things I was supposed to do based on the faqs.
> Does anyone know what could be the reasons that adding true type could
> cause problems on a system reboot, but not just an xfs restart and a
> possible solution?

AFAIK ttf fonts are supported by the Font server (xfs) that RedHat included
from RH 6.0 on.
So no need to download and install xfstt, the xfs included with RedHat > 6.0
have xfs patched to xfstt 1.opl3.

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by **Jens Reh** » Thu, 17 Feb 2000 04:00:00

Quote:>> Hello. I am having a problem using RedHat 6.1 with true type fonts. I
>> have done all of the things I was supposed to do based on the faqs.
>> Does anyone know what could be the reasons that adding true type could
>> cause problems on a system reboot, but not just an xfs restart and a
>> possible solution?

Hi there,
I experienced the same problem, when I first tried xfstt on my Linux box
with initial runlevel 3. My error was, that I didn't call xfstt by its
full pathname (/usrlocal/bin/xfstt in my case).
The initscript which starts the X-Server doesn't find the binary if one
just calls it without the complete path-tree.

Make absolutely sure, that the init scrip finds the binary.
If the server looks for the fontpath and cannot find it due to a not running
xfstt, it will end up in a infinite loop.

Hope this is of any use
Best regards
Jens Rehn

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