Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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).
Far as I can tell, it already does. I have absolutely no recollection of setting it myself and yet `ps ax' says: 220 ? S 0:17 /usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -deferglyphs 16 -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-BmWLWd I'm using the following on potato ii xserver-common 3.3.6-9 files and utilities common to all X servers ii xserver-svga 3.3.6-9 X server for SVGA graphics cards ii xdm 3.3.6-8 X display manager Cheers, -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
