On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, John Toon wrote:
> (Also, I know this is offtopic for this particular list, but I'm still
> experiencing crashes occasionally whilst running certain DRI accelerated
> OpenGL games - I've got a Matrox G400. Total lockups - I can't kill X, can't
> switch to a virtual console, just completely frozen. I've had this with Quake
> III, FlightGear, and Arkanae - it doesn't happen frequently, but it does
> happen sometimes...).
(Heh, I'm not alone trying to make Matrox cards work ;-) But I'm
happy without DRI on my G450s. Unfortunately, XFree86 support for Matrox
cards became much more latent after Mark Vojkovich moved to nVidia...
What you can try instead of pressing [Reset] is Alt+PrtSc+S,U,B
(with a prior echo 1 >/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq) (Sorry for offtopic).)
> > The simplest way to do so would be to install your first 500 fonts
> > only, and see if it happens. Then take the 500 fonts in which you
> > have located the broken one, and try again with the first 250 fonts of
> > the batch. Continue narrowing the range further, you should converge
> > in 10 iterations, 9 if you're lucky.
>
> > Alternatively, you could do
> >
> > for i in "$(xlsfonts)"; do xfd -fn "$i"; done
>
> This doesn't work:
>
> Dionysus:/# for i in "$(xlsfonts)"; do xfd -fn "$i"; done
> bash: /usr/bin/X11/xfd: Argument list too long
That's because of quotes: that should be $(xlsfonts), not
"$(xlsfonts)". In the latter case a shell treates all output of xlsfonts
as a single word, and tries to pass it to xfd, thus exceeding the
argv+environment limit (16K on most systems, 128K in Linux).
BTW, this method shouldn't work at all -- many fonts contain
spaces in their names ("New Century Schoolbook"), which will cause
word splitting. Probably the command should be
xlsfonts | xargs -l1 xfd -fn
But binary search (500->250->125) is IMHO much more effective
anyway.
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