On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 11:05:02AM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > 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. Yes, it'd be great to test with a 4.4 release candidate and "freetype". It now has the "xtt" functionality folded in, as well as fixes for some cases that could result in crashes. Feedback on these font-related crashing problems will help to make sure that they are fixed in the 4.4 release. David > > 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 > -- David Dawes developer/release engineer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
