Try replacing in the XF86Config file: Load "freetype" with Load "xtt" And if you could try the 4.4 release candidate, that would be helpful. I don't think it has anything to do with the number of fonts. It's more likely a rasterization problem with one of the fonts. Mark. On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Steve Whitlatch wrote: > One of the very few times I ever had XFree crash. However, this is repeatable, > happens every time I scroll through the font selection widget in KWord > (KDE 3.1.4). I feel the crash is almost certainly related to having a very > large number of fonts installed. Xfontsel reports something like 18 > thousand fonts. AbiWord and OpenOffice have no problem with the high > number of fonts, but I do believe both of them ignore system PostScript > fonts. So, they are not dealing with the full 18 thousand fonts. It > appears that KWord tries to deal with all 18 thousand fonts in this > system, and thus streses Xfree to a pont at which some integer can no > longer hold the value being assigned to it. > > That is my guess. Fix? Change int to long? I dunno. I am just reporting > the crash. Again, it is completely reproduceable; thus, it is unlikely to > be a hardware problem as the Sig 11 would indicate to me. > > I attach all the info I have. I will be glad to help if I can. You may > need someone with a huge number of fonts to force this crash. The crash is > not just KDE, it's the entire X server. > > Steve Whitlatch > swhitlat@xxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
