From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 21 15:50:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0074C16A41F for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:50:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hintak_leung@yahoo.co.uk) Received: from smtp001.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (smtp001.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.11.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86F8243D5C for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:49:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hintak_leung@yahoo.co.uk) Received: (qmail 50784 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2005 15:49:14 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.co.uk; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=kBdFgMpulRGldTahkBnrjfc8uVkiO4GtUFZzPxWCTzJLs9ubjrZjL7+bzgDhyfOJIrso2A6gO/4GcJaPTwefTIVYPy/HvsKjtSCc+5MM2vvmTVotT8m4CqcwMEnw92TfW56JLU7cb82leWt4T9nqRxdAAk6gdgNiiHqt88XX6gc= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?81.104.193.1?) (hintak?leung@81.104.193.1 with plain) by smtp001.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Jul 2005 15:49:12 -0000 Message-ID: <42DFC5CC.8060600@yahoo.co.uk> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:57:00 +0100 From: Hin-Tak Leung User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Cloos References: <1121631880.80601.11.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <42DD6D25.3050309@yahoo.co.uk> <42DD6FAC.5040200@FreeBSD.org> <42DDDE44.9010707@yahoo.co.uk> <1121836344.38031.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <42DDE3C1.4060505@yahoo.co.uk> <1121837996.38031.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <42DDE8DD.60307@yahoo.co.uk> <1121838924.38031.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <42DDEC20.7010502@yahoo.co.uk> <42DEC6B0.5010507@yahoo.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users , Joe Marcus Clarke , freetype-devel@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [ft-devel] Re: xorg crashes with freetype2-2.1.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:50:07 -0000 Everything is quite normal on my system (no crashes...). James Cloos wrote: > If none of those fonts generates a crash, I have to presume that > either the X server is not using freetype 2.1.0 for its freetype > font loading module or an X font server is in use. No, don't have a font server. From my /var/log/Xorg.0.log (II) LoadModule: "freetype" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.so (II) Module freetype: vendor="X.Org Foundation & the After X-TT Project" compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 2.1.0 Module class: X.Org Font Renderer ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font FreeType > Does the directory with that fonts.dir file show up in: > > xset q Font Path: /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/,... > and is X's .../modules/fonts/libfreetype.so linked against freetype > 2.1.0? (It may be a dynamic link w/ the dlloader, but I presume > would have to be a static link using the older elf loader.) ldd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.so ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for `/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.so' libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x40016000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40081000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4019f000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000) ls -l /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Mar 29 07:37 /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 -> libfreetype.so.6.3.8 (6.3.8 is 2.1.10 - 6.3.7 is 2.1.9). > I was seeing crashes many months ago and stopped using scalable > server-side fonts as a result. I found that I didn't need any > given that most of the apps I run now use Xft. At that stage > I had a cvs version of freetype installed in /usr/lib. Xorg > must have been linking against that rather than the version > in the xorg tarfile. That is likely distribution-specific > behavior, though. > > -JimC ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com