Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:46:12AM +0200, José L. Ayala wrote: Hi all! Yesterday, after an upgrade of my testing system, I rebooted the machine and I wasn't able to log in the X environment. I cannot see my login in gdm because characters are displayed as little squares; the same happens in gnome. I tried to generate a new xorg.conf from an old version, and I even tried the gtf tool to calculate the refreshment frequencies for the monitor, but nothing worked. I also tried the stable version of xserver-xorg but, in that case, the X environment didn't work. For your information, my graphics card is an intel one. Your problems seems to be rather font(s) related. Please post the output of dpkg -l *font* With latest xorg you should not need to write too much in xorg.conf. See mine (BTW, I also use intel): ,[ /etc/X11/xorg.conf ] | [sniped comments] | | Section InputDevice | Identifier Generic Keyboard | Driver kbd | Option XkbRules xorg | Option XkbModel pc105 | Option XkbLayout ro,us,de | Option XkbVariantcomma,, | Option XkbOptionsgrp:alts_toggle | EndSection | | Section InputDevice | Identifier Configured Mouse | Driver mouse | EndSection | | Section Device | Identifier Configured Video Device | EndSection | | Section Monitor | Identifier LVDS | # i think without this the dpi is set to 96 but my laptop has 85 | DisplaySize 305 228 | EndSection | | Section Monitor | Identifier Configured Monitor | Option Ignore true | EndSection | | Section Screen | Identifier Default Screen | Monitor Configured Monitor | EndSection ` Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg
José L. Ayala wrote: Hi all! Yesterday, after an upgrade of my testing system, I rebooted the machine and I wasn't able to log in the X environment. I cannot see my login in gdm because characters are displayed as little squares; the same happens in gnome. I tried to generate a new xorg.conf from an old version, and I even tried the gtf tool to calculate the refreshment frequencies for the monitor, but nothing worked. I also tried the stable version of xserver-xorg but, in that case, the X environment didn't work. For your information, my graphics card is an intel one. Please, do you have any new idea? thanks a lot! i have exactly the same problem. my video is an intel 965. some else comments that it appears to be a font problem, but I don't think so. Icons appear wrong too - in particular what it looks like is that transparency doesn't work and the result is either black or white. Using kdm, the central area kdm puts up is white with an enormous black border - so whilst all the text is actually white blobs that is what makes me think it is the video driver -- Alan (via webmail - means I am away from my computer) http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg
Le decadi 20 floréal, an CCXVI, Alan Chandler a écrit : some else comments that it appears to be a font problem, but I don't think so. Icons appear wrong too - in particular what it looks like is that transparency doesn't work and the result is either black or white. Using kdm, the central area kdm puts up is white with an enormous black border - so whilst all the text is actually white blobs that is what makes me think it is the video driver The recent upgrade of xserver 1.3 to 1.4 changed the 2D acceleration framework, that may be what you are experiencing. The very first thing to do is test with a simple environment. Which means neither Gnome nor KDE. I advise to shut down any display manager, log in on the console, and then: X sleep 2 DISPLAY=:0 xterm Then you can do some basic tests, especially between X11 fonts and Xft fonts: xfd -fn fixed xfd -fa serif As for me, I can tell that the current version of xserver works for me, but I do not use neither KDE nor Gnome, nor any compositing manager, and I upgraded (in /opt) to version 2.3.0 of the intel driver to get overlay video (and a small custom patch to get it full screen), so this is no proof. It seems that xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.3.0 is available in experimental. Hope this helps. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg
On Thu May 8 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: With latest xorg you should not need to write too much in xorg.conf. See mine (BTW, I also use intel): ,[ /etc/X11/xorg.conf ] r | | Section Device | Identifier Configured Video Device | EndSection would that work for an nvidia driver? +-01.0-[:01]00.0 nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] running lenny: # uname -a Linux paulandcilla 2.6.22-3-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 20:20:49 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg
Hi again! Thanks a lot for your help. This is the result of your suggestions: xfd -fn fixed WORKS xfd -fa serif DOESN'T WORK: no font to display If I try to launch firefox, I get the unusable fonts displayed and I cannot see the characters again. I've checked the installed fonts: gsfonts-x11 ttf-unfonts ttf-unfonts-extra unifont xfonts-base xfonts-encodings xfonts-scalable What could I try now? Thanks a lot again for your help! Jose
Re: Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg
Le decadi 20 floréal, an CCXVI, Jose L. Ayala a écrit : Thanks a lot for your help. This is the result of your suggestions: xfd -fn fixed WORKS xfd -fa serif DOESN'T WORK: no font to display This is therefore a problem with Xft. Xft act as glue between fontconfig, Freetype and RENDER. Freetype is very unlikely to break (somewhat like libpng). To see if fontconfig works, type fc-list, and see if you have all your usual fonts listed. To see if RENDER works, start xclock and see if the hands are displayed properly _and_ anti-aliased (to better see anti-aliasing, you can use xmag). Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: Digital signature
