Rob wrote:
> The first thing I am not certain of is my recompilation of Xorg using
> the suggested USE flags. I put the new USE flags in /etc/make.conf and
> then issued the command: "emerge -N xorg-x11". Will that work, or do I
> have to do the emerge with "emerge --newuse --enable bitmap-fonts
> truetype-fonts type1-fonts" explicitely? Perhaps my understanding of
> USE flags is wrong for recompiling packages.
emerge has no "--enable" option (you can see this in "man emerge"), and
you don't need the -N option if you re-emerge a single package.
If you want to set USE flags, edit /etc/make.conf (search for USE
there).
To see the USE flags for the xorg-x11 package, try
emerge -av xorg-x11
(look in the man page to find out what the -a and -v options mean; after
all it could be possible that I tell you something wrong).
The output of that command is (here):
| These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
|
| Calculating dependencies ...done!
| [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 -3dfx +3dnow +bitmap-fonts -cjk
| -debug -dlloader -dmx +doc -font-server -insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal
| +mmx +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk -sse -static +truetype-fonts
| +type1-fonts (-uclibc) +xprint* +xv 0 kB
|
| Total size of downloads: 0 kB
|
| Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
The USE flags prepended with a "+" are enabled, the ones starting with
"-" are disabled, the "*" after "+xprint" means that it's a changed USE
flag since the last emerge of xorg-x11.
bitmap-fonts, truetype-fonts and type1-fonts are all enabled here, and I
don't have them listed in my USE flags in /etc/make.conf. They are the
default (so some people can disable them if they want to).
> I wonder about this, because I enable the xtt module in my
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but I get an error message that the xtt module
> cannot be found. Using slocate I confirmed that xtt is nowhere to be found.
I don't know whether xorg has an "xtt" module. My xorg.conf has
"freetype" and "type1", but no "xtt".
Regards...
Michael
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