truetype fonts broken on fresh install

[cephlen]

Hello,

This is a fresh install, my first time with gentoo.

The problem I am having is with truetype fonts. They are broken after a from scratch install.

Gnome works great without AA. With AA, it crashes. Phoenix was giving me a slew of errors like this guy http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28759 but after a reboot, now the errors are fewer.

Either way, it appears that with a basic fresh install, the truetype fonts are broken.

Yes, the Luxi fonts are installed, they are in the TTF directory and look fine. All font files are -r--r--r--

I have tried many of the other suggestions presented in these forums, but nothing seems to work.

#more .gnomerc-errors
SESSION_MANAGER=local/cephlen:/tmp/.ICE-unix/936
Loaded background '0x80b0e58

** (gnome-session:936): WARNING **: Cannot open font file for font Luxi Sans 10

** (gnome_segv:960): WARNING **: Cannot open font file for font Arial Bold 12
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 952, errno = 0

** (metacity:959): WARNING **: Cannot open font file for font Luxi Sans 12


# more .xsession-errors
/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession//Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession//Default: running: sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l :0 root


Phoenix gives me these errors:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/fonts.cache-1 FreeType failed to open, error=0
Xfont /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.cache-1 FreeType failed to open, error=0


and of course the fonts.conf file (the part that matters):
<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
<dir>~/.fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF</dir>


XF86Config:
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/"

XftConfig
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
# TTF fonts
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"

[sebgarden]

Hi cephlen, I have exactly the same error and cannot manage to solve it. I made an emerge -u world yesterday and can only start gnome in failsafe session with aa (after booting, I have to killall gdm and then relaunch it). I add "gnome-session" to my .gnomerc, my users have a shell, I wrote the fontdir in the /etc/X11/fonts/fonts.conf and some other thing without success. I am about to unmerge aalib but if it works with, it would be much better. I once read a thing about uncommenting an option in a gnome config file but didn't found it since. I will search (again).

Regards,
Sébastien.

[sebgarden]

and what if we delete the .gnome directory ? Nothing.

[sebgarden]

I have 2 errors with /var/log/wtmp and /var/run/utmp in .xsession-errors and 2 with the ttf luci font in .gnomerc-errors (fonts). I disabled aa in fonts.conf, without success. Gnome doesn't work better. And the syste don't manage to stop gdm at the end when I reboot.

[cephlen]

Any luck sebgarden?

I have gone through and read the "official" font posting, and did everything there... no luck. Uninstalled xft, xfree, and fontconfig. Reinstalled. no luck...

[cephlen]

well, I wiped out:

freetype
xft
fontconfig
xfree
gnome

and am now reinstalling.

I hope this fixes it.. will let you know when its done.

[cephlen]

well, still broken.

Anyone have any ideas why on a fresh install without anything more than XFree, Xft, FontConfig, and gnome base fonts are invalid?

Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/, removing from list!


am also getting this error now.

My system seems to be falling apart and going to pieces.

[lain iwakura]

what version of xfree are you using? what ebuild, preferably? I remember one version had problems with anti aliased fonts.

before starting X, envoke this at the prompt to disable aa for gnome:
export GDK_USE_XFT=0

this SHOULD get rid of your problems if this is the case, but ya get no aa fonts.

or do this --

try this to see what version of xfree you have installed:
emerge search xfree

if it's not xfree 4.2.1-r2 then update like so:
emerge rsync && emerge xfree

[cephlen]

Yes, using GDK_USE_XFT=0 does work, but the fonts are horrible.

Please note that I cant get ANY truetype fonts to work - neither in Gnome nor in Phoenix.

* x11-base/xfree
Latest version available: 4.2.1-r2
Latest version installed: 4.2.1-r2
Size of downloaded files: 62,366 kB
Homepage: http://www.xfree.org
Description: Xfree86: famous and free X server
* x11-libs/xft
Latest version available: 2.0.1
Latest version installed: 2.0.1
Size of downloaded files: 531 kB
Homepage: http://fontconfig.org/
Description: X FreeType library, also known as Xft2.0
* media-libs/fontconfig
Latest version available: 2.1
Latest version installed: 2.1
Size of downloaded files: 531 kB
Homepage: http://fontconfig.org/
Description: A library for configuring and customizing font access.


my latest fonts.conf:
<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
<dir>~/.fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype</dir>

my latest XF86Config (do you need to see more of it?):
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/"
EndSection


and my XftConfig:
# Standard XFree86 Type 1 fonts
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
# TTF fonts
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"

I have uninstalled and reinstalled these 3 packages many times to get this working. My system is very clean and fresh - I dont even have anything like alsa, cups, samba installed yet. Just about all I have are the requirements to get gnome-base/gnome installed.

This was a Stage2 install, using gentoo 1.4_rc2.

Thanks!

[sebgarden]

Hi Cephlen, it didn't worked better as I emerged xfree for an hour. Now I'm exactly copying your /etc/X11/XF86Config and others files. Could you post your XF86Config to see if it helps ?

I reboot now.
See you later !

Regards,
Sébastien.

[cephlen]

ok, this is a bit on the hard side - im ssh'ing into it from work.

edit - 2nd try.... hang on...

XF86Config
cephlen X11 # more XF86Config
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/"
# FontPath "/root/.fonts/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "xtrap"
Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
Load "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
HorizSync 30-90#30-115
VertRefresh 40-90#40-150
EndSection

Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "DigitalVibrance" # <i>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoLogo" # [<bool>]
#Option "Overlay" # [<bool>]
#Option "UBB" # [<bool>]
#Option "Stereo" # <i>
#Option "WindowFlip" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "NvAGP" # <i>
#Option "PixmapCacheLines" # <i>
#Option "IgnoreEDID" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ConnectedMonitor" # <str>
#Option "ConnectedMonitors" # <str>
#Option "TVStandard" # <str>
#Option "TVOutFormat" # <str>
#Option "NoRenderAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "CursorShadow" # [<bool>]
#Option "CursorShadowAlpha" # <i>
#Option "CursorShadowXOffset" # <i>
#Option "CursorShadowYOffset" # <i>
#Option "UseEdidFreqs" # [<bool>]
#Option "FlatPanelProperties" # <str>
#Option "TwinView" # [<bool>]
#Option "TwinViewOrientation" # <str>
#Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" # <str>
#Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" # <str>
#Option "MetaModes" # <str>
#Option "UseInt10Module" # [<bool>]
#Option "SwapReady" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoTwinViewXineramaInfo" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoRenderExtension" # [<bool>]
#Option "UseClipIDs" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVidia"
BoardName "GeForce2 Ultra"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubSection
EndSection


XftConfig:

# XftConfig
#
# Use with Type1 and TrueType fonts
#

# Note that each application scans all these directories
# during startup, so you may want to disable some to
# get better speed.

# Standard XFree86 Type 1 fonts
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
# TTF fonts
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
# User installed fonts
dir "/opt/ttfonts"
# URW fonts
dir "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
# Localized Truetype fonts
dir "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/big5"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/gb2312"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/japanese"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/korean"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/armenian"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/thai"
# don't yet exist, but i hope to include some day a package for them (Pablo)
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/cyrillic"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/viet"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/ethiopic"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/georgian"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/arabic"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/hebrew"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/unicode"
# AbiSuite comes with URW fonts as well
dir "/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts"

#
# alias 'fixed' for 'mono'
#
match any family == "fixed" edit family =+ "mono";

#
# Check users config file
#
includeif "~/.xftconfig"

#
# Substitute TrueType fonts for Type1 versions
#
match any family == "Times" edit family =+ "Times New Roman";
match any family == "Helvetica" edit family =+ "Verdana";
match any family == "Courier" edit family =+ "Courier New";

#
# Use TrueType fonts for defaults
#
match any family == "serif" edit family += "Times New Roman";
match any family == "sans" edit family += "Arial";
match any family == "sans" edit family += "Verdana";

#
# Use monotype.com (andale) face where possible
#
match
any family == "mono"
all slant == roman
all weight < bold
edit
family += "monotype.com";
#
# otherwise, use courier
#
match any family == "mono" edit family += "Courier New";
match any family == "mono" edit family += "Courier";

#
# Alias between XLFD families and font file family name, prefer local fonts
#
match any family == "Charter" edit family += "Bitstream Charter";
match any family == "Bitstream Charter" edit family =+ "Charter";

match any family == "Lucidux Serif" edit family += "LuciduxSerif";
match any family == "LuciduxSerif" edit family =+ "Lucidux Serif";

match any family == "Lucidux Sans" edit family += "LuciduxSans";
match any family == "LuciduxSans" edit family =+ "Lucidux Sans";

match any family == "Lucidux Mono" edit family += "LuciduxMono";
match any family == "LuciduxMono" edit family =+ "Lucidux Mono";

#
# TrueType font aliases
#
match any family == "Comic Sans" edit family += "Comic Sans MS";
match any family == "Comic Sans MS" edit family =+ "Comic Sans";
match any family == "Trebuchet" edit family += "Trebuchet MS";
match any family == "Trebuchet MS" edit family =+ "Trebuchet";
match any family == "Monotype" edit family =+ "Monotype.com";
match any family == "Andale Mono" edit family += "Monotype.com";
match any family == "Monotype.com" edit family =+ "Andale Mono";

# modifications from Laurent Culioli
match
any family == "webdings"
edit antialias = false;
encoding += "glyphs-fontspecific";
match
any family == "wingdings"
edit antialias = false;
encoding += "glyphs-fontspecific";

# extra aliases -- pablo

# a nice default for sans serif (same as used in yudit)
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Arial";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "MS Gothic";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Gulim";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Baekmuk unigulir";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Lucida Sans Unicode";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Tahoma";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "BPG UTF8 M";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "GF Zemen Unicode";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "MS Mincho";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Pigiarniq";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Urdu Naqsh Nastalique";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Ballymun RO";
# a nice monospaced one
match any family == "mono" edit family =+ "Lucida Console";
# korean
match any family == "Gulim" edit family =+ "Baekmuk unigulir";
match any family == "Batang" edit family =+ "Ubatang";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Gulim";
match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "Batang";
match any family == "mono" edit family =+ "Gulim";
# chinese gb2312
match any family == "Kaiti" edit family =+ "AR PL KaitiM GB";
match any family == "Sungti" edit family =+ "AR PL SungtiL GB";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Sungti";
match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "Sungti";
# chinese big5
match any family == "Kaiti" edit family =+ "AR PL KaitiM Big5";
match any family == "Mingti" edit family =+ "AR PL Mingti2L Big5";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Mingti";
match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "Mingti";
# thai
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Norasi";
match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "Norasi";
# armenian
match any family == "Helvetica" edit family =+ "ArmNet Helvetica";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "ArmNet Helvetica";
match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "ArmNet Helvetica";
# indic
match any family == "Raghindi" edit family =+ "Raghu";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Raghindi";
match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "Raghindi";

#
# If the Microsoft Web Fonts are not installed, we have to find a
# replacement
#

# these come with Sun JDK 1.3
match any family == "Verdana" edit family =+ "Lucida Sans";
match any family == "Times New Roman" edit family =+ "Lucida Bright";
match any family == "Courier New" edit family =+ "Lucida Sans Typewriter";

# OpenOffice 6
match any family == "Verdana" edit family =+ "Lucida Sans Tur";
match any family == "Times New Roman" edit family =+ "Lucida Bright Tur";
match any family == "Courier New" edit family =+ "Lucida Sans Typewriter T
ur";

# ttfonts from RH7
match any family == "Verdana" edit family =+ "Helmet";

# URW fonts
match any family == "Verdana" edit family =+ "Nimbus Sans L";
match any family == "Times New Roman" edit family =+ "Nimbus Roman No9 L";
match any family == "Courier New" edit family =+ "Nimbus Mono L";

# western fonts
match any family == "Verdana" edit family =+ "Blue Highway";

# XFree86 default fonts
match any family == "Verdana" edit family =+ "LuciduxSans";
match any family == "Times New Roman" edit family =+ "LuciduxSerif";


# last ressort defaults
match any family == "Courier" edit family =+ "mono";

match any family == "Helvetica" edit family =+ "sans";
match any family == "Arial" edit family =+ "sans";

match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "sans";
match any family == "Times" edit family =+ "serif";

# Aditions from Danny Tholen

match
any family == "symbol"
edit
antialias = false;
encoding += "glyphs-fontspecific";

match
any family == "Standard Symbols L"
edit
antialias = false;
encoding += "glyphs-fontspecific";

match
any family == "dingbats"
edit
antialias = false;
encoding += "glyphs-fontspecific";


match
any family == "Cursor"
edit
antialias = false;
encoding += "glyphs-fontspecific";

match
any family == "StarBats"
edit
antialias = false;
encoding += "glyphs-fontspecific";

match
any family == "StarMath"
edit
antialias = false;
encoding += "glyphs-fontspecific";



fonts.conf

cephlen fonts # more fonts.conf
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts.conf file to configure system font access -->
<fontconfig>

<!--
The intent of this standard configuration file is to be adequate for
most environments. If you have a reasonably normal environment and
have found problems with this configuration, they are probably
things that others will also want fixed. Please send any suggested
changes to fonts@xfree86.org so that future releases can include
such changes.

Note that the normal 'make install' procedure for XFree86 is to
replace any existing fonts.conf file with the new version. Place
any local customizations in local.conf which this file references.

Keith Packard
-->


<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
<dir>~/.fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype</dir>

<!--
Enable sub-pixel rendering
<match target="font">
<test qual="all" name="rgba">
<const>unknown</const>
</test>
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
</match>
-->

<!--
Accept deprecated 'mono' alias, replacing it with 'monospace'
-->
<match target="pattern">
<test qual="any" name="family">
<string>mono</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign">
<string>monospace</string>
</edit>
</match>

<!--
Accept alternate 'sans serif' spelling, replacing it with 'sans-serif'
-->
<match target="pattern">
<test qual="any" name="family">
<string>sans serif</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign">
<string>sans-serif</string>
</edit>
</match>

<!--
Accept deprecated 'sans' alias, replacing it with 'sans-serif'
-->
<match target="pattern">
<test qual="any" name="family">
<string>sans</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign">
<string>sans-serif</string>
</edit>
</match>

<!--
Mark common families with their generics so we'll get
something reasonable
-->

<!--
Serif faces
-->
<alias>
<family>Times</family>
<family>Times New Roman</family>
<family>Nimbus Roman No9 L</family>
<family>Luxi Serif</family>
<family>Kochi Mincho</family>
<family>AR PL SungtiL GB</family>
<family>AR PL Mingti2L Big5</family>
<family>Baekmuk Batang</family>
<default><family>serif</family></default>
</alias>
<!--
Sans-serif faces
-->
<alias>
<family>Helvetica</family>
<family>Arial</family>
<family>Verdana</family>
<family>Nimbus Sans L</family>
<family>Luxi Sans</family>
<family>Kochi Gothic</family>
<family>AR PL KaitiM GB</family>
<family>AR PL KaitiM Big5</family>
<family>Baekmuk Dotum</family>
<family>SimSun</family>
<default><family>sans-serif</family></default>
</alias>
<!--
Monospace faces
-->
<alias>
<family>Courier</family>
<family>Courier New</family>
<family>Andale Mono</family>
<family>Luxi Mono</family>
<family>Nimbus Mono L</family>
<family>NSimSun</family>
<default><family>monospace</family></default>
</alias>
<!--
If the font still has no generic name, add sans-serif
-->
<match target="pattern">
<test qual="all" name="family" compare="not_eq">
<string>sans-serif</string>
</test>
<test qual="all" name="family" compare="not_eq">
<string>serif</string>
</test>
<test qual="all" name="family" compare="not_eq">
<string>monospace</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="append_last">
<string>sans-serif</string>
</edit>
</match>

<!--
Load per-user customization file
-->
<include ignore_missing="yes">~/.fonts.conf</include>

<!--
Load local system customization file
-->
<include ignore_missing="yes">local.conf</include>

<!--
Alias well known font names to available TrueType fonts
-->
<alias>
<family>Times</family>
<accept><family>Times New Roman</family></accept>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>Helvetica</family>
<accept><family>Verdana</family></accept>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>Arial</family>
<accept><family>Verdana</family></accept>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>Courier</family>
<accept><family>Courier New</family></accept>
</alias>

<!--
Provide required aliases for standard names
-->
<alias>
<family>serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Nimbus Roman No9 L</family>
<family>Luxi Serif</family>
<family>Kochi Mincho</family>
<family>ZYSong18030</family>
<family>AR PL SungtiL GB</family>
<family>AR PL Mingti2L Big5</family>
<family>Baekmuk Batang</family>
<family>Times New Roman</family>
<family>Times</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Luxi Sans</family>
<family>Nimbus Sans L</family>
<family>Helvetica</family>
<family>Kochi Gothic</family>
<family>ZYSong18030</family>
<family>AR PL SungtiL GB</family>
<family>AR PL Mingti2L Big5</family>
<family>Baekmuk Gulim</family>
<family>Verdana</family>
<family>Arial</family>
<family>SimSun</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>monospace</family>
<prefer>
<family>Luxi Mono</family>
<family>Nimbus Mono L</family>
<family>Kochi Gothic</family>
<family>ZYSong18030</family>
<family>AR PL SungtiL GB</family>
<family>AR PL Mingti2L Big5</family>
<family>Baekmuk Gulim</family>
<family>Andale Mono</family>
<family>Courier New</family>
</prefer>
</alias>

<!--
We can't hint CJK fonts well, so turn off hinting for CJK fonts.
-->

<match target="font">
<test name="lang" compare="contains">
<string>ja</string>
</test>
<edit name="hinting" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test name="lang" compare="contains">
<string>ko</string>
</test>
<edit name="hinting" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test name="lang" compare="contains">
<string>zh</string>
</test>
<edit name="hinting" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>

<!--
Artificial oblique for fonts without an italic or oblique version
-->

<match target="font">
<!-- check to see if the font is roman -->
<test name="slant">
<const>roman</const>
</test>
<!-- check to see if the pattern requested non-roman -->
<test target="pattern" name="slant" compare="not_eq">
<const>roman</const>
</test>
<!-- multiply the matrix to slant the font -->
<edit name="matrix" mode="assign">
<times>
<name>matrix</name>
<matrix><double>1</double><double>.2</double>
<double>0</double><double>1</double>
</matrix>
</times>
</edit>
<!-- pretend the font is oblique now -->
<edit name="slant" mode="assign">
<const>oblique</const>
</edit>
</match>

<config>
<!--
These are the default Unicode chars that are expected to be blank
in fonts. All other blank chars are assumed to be broken and
won't appear in the resulting charsets
-->
<blank>
<int>0x0020</int> <!-- SPACE -->
<int>0x00a0</int> <!-- NO-BREAK SPACE -->
<int>0x00ad</int> <!-- SOFT HYPHEN -->
<int>0x115f</int> <!-- HANGUL CHOSEONG FILLER -->
<int>0x1160</int> <!-- HANGUL JUNGSEONG FILLER -->
<int>0x1680</int> <!-- OGHAM SPACE MARK -->
<int>0x2000</int> <!-- EN QUAD -->
<int>0x2001</int> <!-- EM QUAD -->
<int>0x2002</int> <!-- EN SPACE -->
<int>0x2003</int> <!-- EM SPACE -->
<int>0x2004</int> <!-- THREE-PER-EM SPACE -->
<int>0x2005</int> <!-- FOUR-PER-EM SPACE -->
<int>0x2006</int> <!-- SIX-PER-EM SPACE -->
<int>0x2007</int> <!-- FIGURE SPACE -->
<int>0x2008</int> <!-- PUNCTUATION SPACE -->
<int>0x2009</int> <!-- THIN SPACE -->
<int>0x200a</int> <!-- HAIR SPACE -->
<int>0x200b</int> <!-- ZERO WIDTH SPACE -->
<int>0x200c</int> <!-- ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER -->
<int>0x200d</int> <!-- ZERO WIDTH JOINER -->
<int>0x200e</int> <!-- LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK -->
<int>0x200f</int> <!-- RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK -->
<int>0x2028</int> <!-- LINE SEPARATOR -->
<int>0x2029</int> <!-- PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR -->
<int>0x202a</int> <!-- LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING -->
<int>0x202b</int> <!-- RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING -->
<int>0x202c</int> <!-- POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING
-->
<int>0x202d</int> <!-- LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE -->
<int>0x202e</int> <!-- RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE -->
<int>0x202f</int> <!-- NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE -->
<int>0x205f</int> <!-- MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE -
->
<int>0x2060</int> <!-- WORD JOINER -->
<int>0x2061</int> <!-- FUNCTION APPLICATION -->
<int>0x2062</int> <!-- INVISIBLE TIMES -->
<int>0x2063</int> <!-- INVISIBLE SEPARATOR -->
<int>0x206A</int> <!-- INHIBIT SYMMETRIC SWAPPING
-->
<int>0x206B</int> <!-- ACTIVATE SYMMETRIC SWAPPING
-->
<int>0x206C</int> <!-- INHIBIT ARABIC FORM SHAPING
-->
<int>0x206D</int> <!-- ACTIVATE ARABIC FORM SHAPIN
G -->
<int>0x206E</int> <!-- NATIONAL DIGIT SHAPES -->
<int>0x206F</int> <!-- NOMINAL DIGIT SHAPES -->
<int>0x3000</int> <!-- IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE -->
<int>0x3164</int> <!-- HANGUL FILLER -->
<int>0xfeff</int> <!-- ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE -
->
<int>0xffa0</int> <!-- HALFWIDTH HANGUL FILLER -->
<int>0xfff9</int> <!-- INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION ANCH
OR -->
<int>0xfffa</int> <!-- INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION SEPA
RATOR -->
<int>0xfffa</int> <!-- INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION TERM
INATOR -->
</blank>
<!--
Rescan configuration every 30 seconds when FcFontSetList is called
-->
<rescan>
<int>30</int>
</rescan>
</config>

</fontconfig>

[cephlen]

cephlen X11 # fc-list
Luxi Serif:style=Regular
Utopia:style=Bold Italic
Arial:style=Regular
Webdings:style=Regular
Verdana:style=Bold Italic
Trebuchet MS:style=Bold Italic
Luxi Serif:style=Bold
Trebuchet MS:style=Italic
Comic Sans MS:style=Bold
Luxi Mono:style=Bold
Utopia:style=Bold
Bitstream Charter:style=Bold Italic
Luxi Sans:style=Bold
Trebuchet MS:style=Regular
Times New Roman:style=Bold Italic
Lucida Console:style=Regular
Arial Black:style=Regular
Impact:style=Regular
Times New Roman:style=Bold
Verdana:style=Bold
Courier:style=Bold Italic
Luxi Sans:style=Regular
Courier:style=Regular
Cursor:style=Regular
Arial:style=Bold Italic
Courier New:style=Regular
Bitstream Charter:style=Regular
Times New Roman:style=Italic
Trebuchet MS:style=Bold
Courier 10 Pitch:style=Bold Italic
Luxi Mono:style=Regular
Wingdings:style=Regular
Bitstream Charter:style=Italic
Tahoma:style=Regular
Courier New:style=Bold Italic
Marlett:style=Regular
Courier 10 Pitch:style=Italic
Utopia:style=Italic
Courier New:style=Bold
Luxi Serif:style=Oblique
Courier New:style=Italic
Tahoma:style=Bold
Luxi Serif:style=Bold Oblique
Times New Roman:style=Regular
Luxi Mono:style=Oblique
Courier 10 Pitch:style=Regular
Luxi Sans:style=Oblique
MS Outlook:style=Regular
Courier:style=Italic
Courier 10 Pitch:style=Bold
Arial:style=Italic
Comic Sans MS:style=Regular
Luxi Sans:style=Bold Oblique
Arial Black:style=Italic
Symbol:style=Regular
Luxi Mono:style=Bold Oblique
Courier:style=Bold
Verdana:style=Regular
Utopia:style=Regular
Bitstream Charter:style=Bold
Verdana:style=Italic
Arial:style=Bold

[sebgarden]

After rebooting, it don't work better: I always have the same blinking screen at gdm start and it switches to tty0 before the gnome login screen appears (or it appears a few tenth of second). Then I have to type gdm-stop and gdm to run the gdm-login but I can't log into a normal session. I have no aaI tried to see in whoch order emerging the packages for a running X in typing:

Code: Select all

# emerge -pe xfree

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N   ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.0 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r1 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-devel/gettext-0.11.5-r1 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-apps/texinfo-4.3-r1 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-devel/gcc-3.2.1-r6 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-devel/libtool-1.4.1-r10 
[ebuild  N   ] dev-python/python-fchksum-1.6.1 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-apps/bash-2.05b-r3 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-libs/readline-4.3-r4 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-libs/db-1.85-r1 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.0-r5 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-apps/groff-1.18.1 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-apps/cronbase-0.2.1-r1 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-apps/man-1.5k-r1 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.0 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-devel/perl-5.8.0-r9 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-devel/m4-1.4p-r1 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-libs/db-3.2.9-r1 
[ebuild  N   ] dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r4 
[ebuild  N   ] dev-perl/Safe-2.09 
[ebuild  N   ] dev-libs/expat-1.95.5-r1 
[ebuild  N   ] dev-lang/python-2.2.2 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-apps/debianutils-1.16.3 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-apps/fileutils-4.1.11 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.46-r9 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-devel/binutils-2.13.90.0.16-r1 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-apps/gawk-3.1.1-r1 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.5.8 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.1-r3 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-devel/patch-2.5.4-r4 
[ebuild  N   ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.3-r2 
[ebuild  N   ] x11-base/opengl-update-1.5 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r5 
[ebuild  N   ] x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.4 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.54 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-apps/miscfiles-1.3 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r6 
[ebuild  N   ] dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-libs/pwdb-0.61-r4 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-devel/automake-1.6.3 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-libs/pam-0.75-r11 
[ebuild  N   ] sys-apps/ed-0.2-r3 
[ebuild  N   ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.1-r1 
[ebuild  N   ] app-arch/cabextract-0.6 
[ebuild  N   ] x11-base/xfree-4.2.1-r2
[ebuild  N   ] xft-2.0.1-r1

root@idk-002c307 seb # emerge info
Portage 2.0.46-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-which: no gcc in (/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin)
sh: line 1: -dumpversion: command not found, glibc-2.3.1-r3)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo 		
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx ncurses nls pdflib png qtmt quicktime sdl spell xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline tetex aalib bonobo svga java guile mysql X gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk motif mozilla scanner -arts -esd -kde -qt acpi dvd evo fbcon gb gif mpeg opengl samba truetype xfs xml"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -03 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -03 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

I only have an error message complaining about luxi fonts in .gnomerc-errors and the one about utmp and wtmp in .xsession-errors. So if I could unmerge the package causing this font error to constrain x to use an other font, perhaps it would work.

So now, Some questions :
1. How can I choose the font that use X by default (some type1 font is enough) ?
2.Cephlen, in which order did you emerge your three packages ? Did you remember it ?
3. Are xft and freetype doublons or is one better than another or are they totally different ?
4. Is there another version of xfree that works better ?

Regards,
Sébastien.

[cephlen]

cephlen edb # emerge -p gnome

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.2-r2
[ebuild N ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.1
[ebuild N ] x11-base/xfree-4.2.1-r2
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gdm-2.4.0.12-r2
[ebuild N ] gnome-extra/gnome-utils-2.0.6
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-2.0.3-r1

I built them in this order.


cephlen edb # emerge -p xft

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.2-r2
[ebuild N ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.1
[ebuild N ] x11-base/xfree-4.2.1-r2
[ebuild N ] x11-libs/xft-2.0.1

but stuck xft in there before gnome. Perhaps I dont need xft and this is the cause of all my problems?

[sebgarden]

Thank you cephlen, I'm checking that.

[cephlen]

well, I messed up pretty badly trying to get this to work.

I was clearing everything of gnome - was going to start again - and did a rm -rf gnome * in my /etc dir... wiped it all out oops.. darn spacebar...

I am going to wipe everything out and start over again.

[lain iwakura]

hmm, when you said you did a*clean* install before, did you wipe all partions anew????

and did truetype fonts aa work at least ONCE before??

from the first post, i'm betting it was something screwy in your /tmp dir and you should have wiped that clean to fix it. if not, i'm kinda stumped here.

[lain iwakura]

oh, and in your /etc/make.conf file, make sure ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" is commeted like this

#ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~yourarch"

this blocks unstable packages. Although i usually have this uncommented, i do not have xft-2.0.1-R1 installed (I have xft-2.0.1 installed.) that MIGHT be your problem as well as a few other not so thouroghly tested packages.

so, make sure you do a STABLE compilation before diving into unstable territorry.

hope this helps!

[sebgarden]

Nonetheless, it doesn't work even with xft-2.0.1 but thank you, it could e working with the next xfree-release.

[sebgarden]

The problem with xsession and the /var/log/wtmp and /var/run/utmp appears to be the bug #12767: XDM does not write wtmp entries. For the fonts, I believe it can wait for the next X release.

Regards,
Sébastien.

[cephlen]

everyone,

Thanks so much for the help.. I am back after a gosh darn long install...

I am sitting here writing this in gnome using phoenix with nice crisp clean fonts.

[sebgarden]

So, so... maybe I should try an emerge world again. This cannot hurt

Sébastien

[cephlen]

if you need any help, I would be more than happy to give you my installed versions, config files, etc...

[xyverz]

I'm having a bit of a problem with some of my fonts... with the truetype fonts, I'm not getting the boldfacing of fonts - for example, trebuchet ms will not display bold at 10pt.

I've checked my configs against my work box, which IS working, and everything looks good.

I've turned on sub-pixel rendering, I've got the freetype module loaded, and I've confirmed the fontpaths in /etc/X11/fs/config and /etc/X11/XF86Config.

Anybody have this problem?

[cult hero]

So what was the resolution? I just did a clean install (finished getting Gnome compiled last night) and everything is looking sweet. However, I am getting that error when I shutdown:

Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/, removing from list!

Or when I start or whenever. I followed the directions in this thread:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=55823

Ran the ttmkfdir and the fc-cache and still no dice. I have no true type fonts and I WILL NOT live without AA.