how would i go about locating these stray libraries to see if they were causing the problem, and then finding and linking to the ones that would fix things again? i think you might be right that something is screwy with the libraries, b/c as i said, when i tried to sym link from /usr/lib to the newer libraries installed in /usr/local/lib, the fonts looked worse. thnx --- On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:13:02 -0700 (PDT) synaptical <synaptical@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > with recent releases of some distros, the fonts have gone all to h3ll and > nothing seems to fix them. they've gone for example from this: First guess: a .so file tucked away somewhere. Perhaps a stray library is being picked up and used instead of the ones you want. -- Ciprian Popovici _____________________________________________________________ Thank you for choosing LinuxQuestions. http://www.linuxquestions.org _____________________________________________________________ Thank you for choosing LinuxQuestions. http://www.linuxquestions.org