Thanks Branden for all your great work!
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on "Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:45:17 -0500",
with "Re: Place of X RESOURCE files (xfree86_4.0.1)",
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I will apply your patch for phase2v20, and we'll see if it works. Thanks
> very much for your contribution.
It will do work well for us, I think. I'll check it when
I can get libglide3-dev from somewhere and can build it
locally (currently I can not find libglide3 and libglide3-dev).
BTW, you wrote on debian-x at Sun, 16 Jul 2000:
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-x-0007/msg00016.html>
| On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 12:49:16AM +0900, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote:
| > Perhaps we'll change default setting of glyph caching mode to apply this
| > patch and rebuild xfree86-1.
| >
| > --- xc/include/fonts/font.h.orig Thu Jul 13 00:36:53 2000
| > +++ xc/include/fonts/font.h Thu Jul 13 00:37:56 2000
| > @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
| > #define CACHING_OFF 0
| > #define CACHE_16_BIT_GLYPHS 1
| > #define CACHE_ALL_GLYPHS 2
| > -#define DEFAULT_GLYPH_CACHING_MODE CACHING_OFF
| > +#define DEFAULT_GLYPH_CACHING_MODE CACHE_16_BIT_GLYPHS
| > extern int glyphCachingMode;
| >
| > extern int StartListFontsWithInfo(
|
| That's interesting; thanks for pointing it out. I'm trying to avoid
| further changes to the upstream source for 3.3.6-10, but I'll be interested
| to see what the default for this is in 4.0.1. If you're not subscribed to
| debian-x, please do so and keep me on my toes with respect to i18n issues
| with the new version of X. I expect to have Phase 1 .debs (see URL below)
| available this week.
I have checked the source tree of ph2v18, and v20 diff.gz,
and I think this patch can be applied for current 4.0.1 ph2v20
tree. The necessity of this pacth is desribed in
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-x-0007/msg00007.html>
| > On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:05:00PM -0600, Anthony Fok wrote:
| >
| > > I am glad that you somehow found out "-deferglyphs 16". :-) This option
| > > "defers" the loading of 16-bit glyphs e.g. large CJK and Unicode fonts.
| > > Otherwise, X would try to load the _entire_ font (with 14000+ glyphs)
| > > into the memory all at once. This soon crashes the X font server,
| > > and since X can't talk to the font server any more, it just freezes whenever
| > > a font is requested. At this state, X would use up all the CPU resources,
| > > probably trying desperately to talk to a non-existent font server. :-)
| >
| > If I understand your description correctly this option is never harmful but
| > very useful for some setups. Don't you think that the Debian setup should
| > pass this option per default? In that case please ask Branden if he can
| > do that (or file a bug, severity wishlist, on xserver-common).
Please consider this also for your 4.0.1 package. Thanks.
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