Can't see characters in xserver-xorg

2008-05-08 Thread José L. Ayala
Hi all! Yesterday, after an upgrade of my testing system, I rebooted the machine and I wasn't able to log in the X environment. I cannot see my login in gdm because characters are displayed as little squares; the same happens in gnome. I tried to generate a new xorg.conf from an old version, and

Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg

2008-05-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:46:12AM +0200, José L. Ayala wrote: Hi all! Yesterday, after an upgrade of my testing system, I rebooted the machine and I wasn't able to log in the X environment. I cannot see my login in gdm because characters are displayed as little squares; the same happens in

Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg

2008-05-08 Thread Alan Chandler
José L. Ayala wrote: Hi all! Yesterday, after an upgrade of my testing system, I rebooted the machine and I wasn't able to log in the X environment. I cannot see my login in gdm because characters are displayed as little squares; the same happens in gnome. I tried to generate a new

Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg

2008-05-08 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 20 floréal, an CCXVI, Alan Chandler a écrit : some else comments that it appears to be a font problem, but I don't think so. Icons appear wrong too - in particular what it looks like is that transparency doesn't work and the result is either black or white. Using kdm, the central

Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg

2008-05-08 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu May 8 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: With latest xorg you should not need to write too much in xorg.conf. See mine (BTW, I also use intel): ,[ /etc/X11/xorg.conf ] r | | Section Device |   Identifier  Configured Video Device | EndSection would that work for an nvidia

Re: Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg

2008-05-08 Thread Jose L . Ayala
Hi again! Thanks a lot for your help. This is the result of your suggestions: xfd -fn fixed WORKS xfd -fa serif DOESN'T WORK: no font to display If I try to launch firefox, I get the unusable fonts displayed and I cannot see the characters again. I've checked the installed fonts:

Re: Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg

2008-05-08 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 20 floréal, an CCXVI, Jose L. Ayala a écrit : Thanks a lot for your help. This is the result of your suggestions: xfd -fn fixed WORKS xfd -fa serif DOESN'T WORK: no font to display This is therefore a problem with Xft. Xft act as glue between fontconfig, Freetype and RENDER.