Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 14:05:03 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Cejka Rudolf <cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELFoized xtt-SVGA-1.0 & TrueType fonts => HANG Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811041355160.523-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199811041751.SAA22212@kazi.dcse.fee.vutbr.cz>
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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Cejka Rudolf wrote: > > > I found Xtt to be extremely flakey and astonishingly complicated. > > > > Meanwhile, these patches for X11 are pretty simple and work > > great: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/ > > So somebody can make official port xfsft... It would be best as a build option of the XFree86 port as it is basically a patch...making a separate port would probably be a more complicated. > Yes - there are alternatives, but I want to know if ports > XttXF86srv-* are for ELF really broken or not. I never got it to work right pre-elf; it crashed on about half of the fonts I tried it with. I haven't felt a need to try it since then because the xfsft patch to the XFree86 port works just fine. -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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