Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:29:02 -0400 From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> To: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak_leung@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@FreeBSD.org>, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>, freetype-devel@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [ft-devel] Re: xorg crashes with freetype2-2.1.10 Message-ID: <m3u0iou3q9.fsf@lugabout.cloos.reno.nv.us> In-Reply-To: <42DEC6B0.5010507@yahoo.co.uk> (Hin-Tak Leung's message of "Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:48:32 %2B0100") References: <1121631880.80601.11.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <op.st4sftf09aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.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> <m38y01ux0u.fsf@lugabout.cloos.reno.nv.us> <42DEC6B0.5010507@yahoo.co.uk>
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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.
Does the directory with that fonts.dir file show up in:
xset q
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.)
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
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