Hi,
I got the XFree 4.1.0 from the XFree site, I downloaded the binaries from
the glibc22 version (that's what I needed).
Yesterday I was looking through other posts and read about commenting out
the FontPath unix/:7100 (or something similar).
I did that and it turned out to be the solution.
I'll surely try your tips since I regularly get error messages while running
X.
Thanks.
Bye, Helma
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owen Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, 24 September 2001 17:31
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Fonts]unintelligible font in GNOME after upgrade to
> XFree86 4.1.0
>
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm more or less a newbie in Linux land so please don't
> assume too much
> > knowledge of the ins and outs of Linux. I recently
> downloaded the RedHat 7.1
> > ISO's from their website, installed them on my machine and
> started the
> > updates. From reading information on various sites I got
> the impression that
> > I needed XFree 4.1.0 to get rid of nasty quirks in the
> software when using
> > my mouse and keyboard (Logitech Cordless Pro and Cordless
> Wheelman), so I
> > finally upgraded to XFree 4.1.0 and answered the default to the many
> > questions I didn't understand.
> > Now I have a system with a more or less correctly working
> KDE in which I can
> > choose from various fonts for the various screen parts. I
> even managed to
> > copy Arial, Tahoma and Verdana fonts from my Windows 98SE
> directory to my
> > Linux partition and use them within KDE, but now whenever I
> try to run a
> > Gnome application or switch to Gnome as window manager I get dotted
> > rectangles where there should be text so e.g. it's
> impossible to configure a
> > printer.
> >
> > Who can tell me what to do to get Gnome produce readable
> text or what I
> > should do to "undo" the upgrade to XFree86 4.1.0.
> >
> > Please email (as well), since I'm not sure I will be able
> to find this
> > mailing list again.
>
> It sounds like you might be running a mixed XFree86-4.1.x
> and XFree86-3.3.x setup. If you have the fonts from XFree86-4.1
> but are running a 3.3.6 X server or font server, you will
> see something like this.
>
> You might want to try:
>
> - Restarting your font server ('service xfs restart')
> - Rerunning Xconfigurator to make sure you actually get the
> XFree86-4.1
> server. ('Xconfigurator --preferxf4')
>
> Where did you get the 4.1.0 XFree86 packages?
>
> Owen
>
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