Emacs square box fonts - modular X? [SOLVED]

uberkermitt · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Posts: 107

Hey all, I recently upgraded to modular X, and since then (though it might not be the cause of the problem), I have got this weird thing going on with Emacs. I tried rebuilding Emacs, but its the same problem. Have a look at an image of my Emacs in action. Also, if it is of any help, my xorg.conf, and my emerge --info.

I am hoping this is a simple fix - I like to have Emacs available for use.

edit:: just adding some text for people searching..

My emacs displays a bunch of little square boxes

Philantrop · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:01 pm Post subject:

You seem to have updated to modular X.org X11 7.1 which causes problems with the proprietary NVidia drivers when rendering fonts.

The solution is to downgrade to 7.0. Read this thread for more information: >=xorg-server-1.0.99 blocks nvidia/ati binary drivers
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uberkermitt · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Posts: 107

Am I missing something? Here are a couple of the relevant packages installed on my system.

Philantrop · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:50 pm Post subject:

That's strange. My initial assumption was obviously wrong. It was based on the fact that I've had exactly the same problem with fonts in Emacs that you currently have.
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uberkermitt · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Posts: 107

Ah heck - I was hoping someone would have had the same problem and have it sorted out. >:

uberkermitt · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Posts: 107

*bump*

ld50 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Posts: 135

Any errors in stdout/stderr ?

uberkermitt · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Posts: 107

Nothing at all

dmpogo · Advocate Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 2000 Location: Canada

1) Well, it is being said that in 7.1/nvidia problematic configuration it is often
sufficient to set

Option "RenderAccel" "false"

could you try if that changes things ? Not that you want it, but to check that this is driver issue.

2) Are you sure the fonts that emacs usually uses are installed ? I vaguely recall some postings about this being the problem.

uberkermitt · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Posts: 107

As it turns out, I took the missing font thing to heart, and managed to find this post. Basically, by finding out how to use xfontsel (it's in portage if its not installed on your computer) I chose a font I thought I'd like, and added it to my ~/.Xdefaults file. Here is an example of what I have in my own file:

PiRmD · Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:35 am Post subject:

Hi uberkermitt,

just in case you need to do it again, you can apply any change made in .Xdefault (or Xresources) files without restarting X by doing: