Hi
I fixed the problem, but it wasnt very simple. What I had to do, is realize,
that in the font folders every "fonts.scale" file was empty. I had to copy
the fonts.dir file over the fonts.scale and it was a half solution already.
After that I had to remove a few lines from the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file.
Now all it says is this
<!-- Font directory list configured on Wed Mar 16 18:25:30 EST 2005 -->
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
This is of course only the top part of the file, but I had to remove some
folders from here to make it work. Now, the squares are gone. I found the
solutions on a very good website, here
http://ed.asisaid.com/fontfight.html
Thanks
Ben
On Friday 06 May 2005 01:43, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> On Wed, 4 May 2005, Benedek Frank wrote:
> > In my Sony Vaio Laptop (PCG-C1VRX/K) I have an ATI Rage Mobility Mach64
> > P/M chipset. This chipset while works in the Xfree86 4.3 version when
> > displaying 640x480, but not when using with 1024x480 for 16 or 24bit.
> > With 8 bit it works. What I get in 16 and 24 bits is a Grayish screen
> > filling up the whole LCD.
> >
> > I found googling around pn a Japanese site, that somebody has the same
> > problem, but being a Japanese site, the translation wasnt so clear, so I
> > didnt understand what happened, just that 4.5 works fine with the chip. I
> > upgraded to 4.5, and Voila, the 1024x480 works like a charm in 16 and 24
> > bit as well. However, now KDM and KDE doesnt show a single letter or
> > digit, just squares everywhere instead of writing. I installed twice,
> > first telling it not to overwrite the fontconfig, but that caused square
> > fonts, so I installed secondly, telling to update the fonts config, and
> > still the same problem. I am not an expert, so I dont know where to go ,
> > what to do.
> >
> > My distribution is Debian Sarge with 2.6.11 kernel. I have some Japanese
> > fonts installed ttf-sazanami-mincho and gothic, I installed while using
> > Xfree4.3 with 640x480 and they worked fine.
>
> Does xterm display properly? If so, you likely clobbered your font path
> when upgrading.
>
> Marc.
>
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