On Fre, 2002-10-04 at 14:14, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > At 13:37 04/10/2002 +0200, Michel D�nzer wrote: > >On Fre, 2002-10-04 at 12:07, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > > > > > > Just a thing to underline : in debian unstable/experimental, Xfree doesn't > > > load the xft module and then AA isn't enabled since user hack his > > > XF86config-4 file... > > > > > > Just adding Load "xft" make the stuff working. > > > >There's no xft XFree86 module, do you mean xtt? Anyway, that has nothing > >to do with AA either. > > Well, tell me if I'm wrong but what I say is based on that : > > Xft is based on freetype,
True. > thus you must load the freetype module. Wrong. > Basically, edit your XF86Config (that can be called XF86Config-4 on some > distributions such as RedHat or Mandrake) and make sure you have the > following modules loaded in the Module section : > freetype > type1 > xft [EMAIL PROTECTED]> find /usr/X11R6 -name \*xft\* ~ /usr/X11R6/bin/xftcache /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xftcache.1x.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED]> grep -i xft /var/log/XFree86.* ~ (1)[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~ Again: Xft is completely client side, it doesn't require a specific X server runtime configuration. > Maybe in my case it was just adding Load "freetype" I don"t know. That may have help an app using TrueType fonts via the legacy X11 font system, but not for AA. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
