I'm giving my brother a spare-parts computer for his birthday. I'm installing
it with Linux and trying to convince him to give it a fair shot.
Unfortunately, the Red Hat 9 installer bombed out with really bad errors. I
checked Red Hat's bug database, and found that others have had the same
problem on this motherboard, but there is no fix yet. On my second attempt to
install, I got most of the base system in, and I was able to boot into single
user mode. I then proceeded to apt-get install the entire system and
configure everything by hand (my Gentoo experiences are finally paying off!).
I think I'm done, except for one big problem.
All of my GTK apps have weird font problems. The gnome menu fonts and
gnome-terminal fonts work just fine, but the letters in some fonts are spaced
very far apart (in Gimp and GnuCash). Some fonts are not showing up at all,
leaving blank dialog boxes (Evolution). I'm running the most current rpms for
everything including XFree, XFS, fontconfig, and gnome. I've installed
everything that I can think of. What am I missing? KDE apps, Mozilla, and
OpenOffice look great.
Ideas? Thanks in advance,
Richard Esplin
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