On Mon, 15 May 2000, Anthony Fok wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 09:26:52AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > When I tried to use the arphic chinese truetype fonts in > > application such as crxvt or netscape.The application will hang... > > and after I tried to kill the application,the X windows exit abnormally > > and I find that the xfs-xtt is killed.What's the problem? > > As a general rule, when you are reporting a problem, please be more specific > and tell us the details. In particular: > > * What platform? (i386?) How much RAM? How much free memory? etc. IBM Thinkpad notebook 390E 64MB RAM Celdron 336Mhz > * Are you using all-Debian packages? Or did you "roll-your-own"? yes.. > * What versions of Debian packages, esp. ttf-arphic-*, xfonts-arphic-*, > xfs-xtt, libxfont-xtt, xlib6g, freetype2, and your Linux kernel, etc. > * potato, woody, or Debian 2.1? all the packages is updated to the newest version in the frozen archive. > * What were the exact commands you used to run crxvt and friends? crxvt: crxvt-Big5 -pt Root -fg white -bg black also,for netscape,I choose to use the Alphic Fonts for Traditional Chinese and it hang too.. > * Was the xfs-xtt killed _before_ or _after_ you tried to use any of the > arphic fonts? It seem when the application use the fonts,the application hang... killing the application make the xfs-xtt killed...thus the X exit abnormally too.. > * Have you been able to use any other TrueType fonts sucessfully with > xfs-xtt? up to now,I don't have any other truetype fonts..maybe I will try it later.. > > Arphic fonts work great on my Cyrix P166 system with 64MB RAM, Linux > kernel 2.2.15, and XFree86 3.3.6, running on a Debian 2.2 (potato) system. > > If you have xfonts-arphic-????00?p_2.10 installed, I suggest that you > try xfonts-arphic-????00?p_2.11, which is currently sitting in "Incoming". > You may find the following files at: > I''m using xfonts-arphic 2.10 now...and ttf-arphic-xxxxxxx 2.10-9.. > http://incoming.debian.org/ > > ce1d1c504eec03707be8fcc7fb80f4b1 4706 x11 optional > xfonts-arphic-bsmi00lp_2.11_all.deb > 64133d9bb9d9f62c6e01a881e7124b89 4710 x11 optional > xfonts-arphic-bkai00mp_2.11_all.deb > e8a9e765fb44b1d4ea4974323e9eb4eb 4704 x11 optional > xfonts-arphic-gbsn00lp_2.11_all.deb > 53219e29435081cd2356297418be7668 4710 x11 optional > xfonts-arphic-gkai00mp_2.11_all.deb > > Here's the changelog: > > > xfonts-arphic (2.11) frozen unstable; urgency=low > > * To Release Manager: As the changes are minimal, and it would > reduce the overhead and improve the stability of the X server and > X font server, please include it in potato. > * Removed the number of aliases for the fonts. There were 648 aliases > for each single Chinese TTF font, most of them just for circumventing > the font size glitch in Netscape 4.x. No wonder xlsfonts was so slow. > Mea culpa. :-) The number of aliases has been reduced to 88. > * [README.Debian]: Added a note to tell the users to use -default-* > instead of -arphic-* in Netscape 4.x for the Chinese TrueType > fonts to be displayed properly. > > -- Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 13 May 2000 02:54:17 -0600 > > > This might help if you have, say, less than 32MB. > > You may also check your /etc/X11/xfs/config and /etc/X11/XF86Config > files. I've attached the former with this message. As for XF86Config, > make sure you have the line > > FontPath "unix/:7100" > Here's my part of XF86Config and /etc/X11/xfs/config XF86Config: Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "unix/:7100" EndSection /etc/X11/xfs/config: catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType > and all the other direct FontPaths removed or commented out, so > the fontpaths listed in in xfs/config are not repeated in XF86Config. > > Please let me know if the above remedies work or not. > > Anthony > > -- > Anthony Fok Tung-Ling Civil and Environmental Engineering > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada > Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://www.olvc.ab.ca/ > >