On Tuesday 21 August 2001 22:08, Shawn Tayler babbled:
> Just spent a bit of time on IRC with a guy in the #kde channel. Seems
> there is a problem with Anti-Alias fonts and XF86 4.0.2 as shipped with
> OL3.1 He had me turn it off, and alot of the strangness and
> instability I was getting has gone. He also recommended a command line
> structure to use when compiling QT from tarball. Since I had src rpms,
> I am trying to download the tarballs, I am just a bit nervous in thet
> there is a -2 in the name of the Caldera rpms and the tarball does not.
> Is this important?
not really. just means it's Caldera's second version of that rpm
>
> Also is it possible to extract the tarball from a src rpm?
rpm -i the source tarball... it puts it in /usr/src/OpenLinux/SOURCES, IIRC.
>
> The command line given for AA font use when compiling QT is as follows:
>
> ./configure -sm -thread -gif -system-zlib -system-libpng -system-jpeg
> -system-libmng -xft -no-g++exceptions
>
> The -xft was the option that was emphasized as being the point.
yes, that turns on TrueType support... that's the line that I use to compile
with..
>
> No there are 2 tarballs available for 2.3.1, one is the embedded the
> other is the X11. Which is the one to get? I'm getting both, but I'd
> like to learn about this a bit.
the x11 version. chuck the embedded one...
> (in his custom asbestos underwear)
not touching this one.. ;)
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