From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 14 1:40:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bumper.jellybaby.net (bumper.jellybaby.net [194.159.247.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0857137B71B for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 01:40:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from simond@bumper.jellybaby.net) Received: (from simond@localhost) by bumper.jellybaby.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id JAA85128; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:40:39 GMT (envelope-from simond) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:40:39 +0000 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: Marc W Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TrueType Fonts and 4.2 Message-ID: <20010314094039.A84544@irrelevant.org> References: <200103140616.WAA91473@akira.lanfear.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200103140616.WAA91473@akira.lanfear.com>; from mwlist@lanfear.com on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:16:18PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:16:18PM -0800, Marc W wrote: > > 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 :-) OK, for a start, 4.2 only comes with XFree86 3.3.6, not v4 so it's not really a surprise that the method you tried didn't work. The good news is that it's not hard to set it up for 3.3.6 either, have a read of: http://www.daemonnews.org/200011/truetype.html I just did exactly this yesterday and now I can actually read all the text in netscape :) -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message