Problem described in URL; has been broken since eternal-lands-1.3.0-r1. The suggested fix - changing the name-font and chat-font values to 1 or 2 changes the font used in the initial games screens and the characters' names, but the game messages and chat windows are still solid blocks. This makes the game unplayable. # emerge --info Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 Last Sync: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:20:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r3 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.16 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -mtune=athlon64 -O3 -pipe -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -mtune=athlon64 -O3 -pipe -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.iinet.com.au/pub/Gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_AU" LC_ALL="en_AU" LINGUAS="" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac acpi alsa amr arts asf audiofile bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 bzlib cairo cdparanoia cdr cdrom chroot cli crypt cups curl dbus dlloader dmi dpms dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc emboss encode exif expat extrafilters fam fame fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint glitz gpm gps gsl gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal id3 idn imagemagick imap imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_wacom ipv6 isdnlog jack java jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kernel_linux lcms ldap libg++ lirc lirc_devices_livedrive_midi lm_sensors lzo mad mikmod mjpeg mmap mng mp3 mpeg mpeg4 musepack musicbrainz ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pda pdf pdflib perl pic png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdk sdl session slang sndfile speex spell spl sqlite ssl svg symlink tcpd test theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia vim vorbis vorbis-psy wmf x264 xcomposite xine xml xml2 xorg xpm xprint xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yv12 zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Could you try moving your ~/.elc folder to ~/.elc-backup and re-running the game to see if that fixes?
I had removed the .elc directory completely in the past without solving the problem, so I suspect that my recent "emerge -e world" rebuild fixed something. I also uninstalled eternal-lands and eternal-lands-data, and removed what was left of /usr/share/games/eternal-lands (update files) before reinstalling it. The move to the new server (games.eternal-lands.com) may also have changed something. At any rate, the problem is solved - thanks.
