Hi, Thought you may be interested. I managed to get all the installed tt fonts visible by manually deleting font.* files, then:
# mkfontscale # mkfontdir in the appropriate dirs, followed by: # fc-cache -fv ...now using XF86-4.3 with the freetype module (still sid, was 4.2.1 with v3.3.6 Xservers and xfstt|xfs-xtt font servers). I have tt fonts either duplicated or linked in both /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts and /usr/share/fonts... fc-cache is only generating fonts.cache-1 files under /usr/X11R6. fontconfig is seeing multiple versions of some fonts; x3 in the case of the larabie fonts, x2 was expected. :-/ Guess I can now reconfigure fontconfig to ignore /usr/share/fonts, eh. I noticed that some of the fonts.dir files were 2-bytes long, which is the result if there is no fonts.scale file when mkfontdir is run in a dir with scaleable fonts. Not sure if this is a result of my fiddling or an installation doing stuff in the wrong order. So, the problems for me appear to have been a result of mkfontscale not being run, or not being run before mkfontdir, and /usr/share/fonts being ignored (even though fc-cache appeared to be processing it)... exacerbated by me not really knowing what was/should be going on. I'm tempted to dpkg-reconfigure back to a v3.3.6 xserver, reinstall a tt font server or two, and see if I can get all fonts working (now that I have somewhat close to half a clue). - Bruce
