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On Sunday 24 February 2002 04:15 pm, Jason Goodman wrote:
> I recently upgraded from a modified Redhat 6.2 to Redhat 7.2. I'm now
> having some strange font problems. Certain sizes of some fonts in
> certain applications do not appear as letters: instead, I see
> rectangular blocks with dotted outlines. Interestingly, I see one
> rectangular block for every *two* characters that should be displayed,
> suggesting that the problem somehow involves two-byte fonts.
[snip]
> My XF86Config file has the following font entries:
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
>
> (Shouldn't there be a reference to a Unix port run by Xfs here
> somewhere?)
I believe the above entries will override the font server.
I have:
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
You mentioned XF86Config. XFree86-4* will try to use XF86Config-4, if it
exists. Since this was an upgrade, perhaps the newer config files were
installed as filename.rpm.new?
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