It seems media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi fonts are hardcoded in VMD sources. Without it no text in VMD menus and "vmd > X_ChangeGC: BadFont (invalid Font parameter) 0x0" message in console output.
It works for me without adobe-fonts installed. Probably you have some settings somewhere which trigger this
# emerge --info FEATURES variable contains unknown value(s): prelink Portage 2.2.0_alpha41 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.39-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.39-gentoo-r2-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_L7100_@_1.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.2 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p10 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1, 3.2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.38 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2 Repositories: gentoo sunrise java-overlay science kde x11 local Installed sets: @system ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA skype-eula AdobeFlash-10.1 googleearth dlj-1.1 Broadcom google-talkplugin" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=native -mtune=native -mssse3" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0 /var/lib/hsqldb /var/spool/torque" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=native -mtune=native -mssse3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs candy distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages multilib-strict news parallel-fetch prelink preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--hash-style=gnu,--sort-common,--as-needed" LINGUAS="ru en" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage/layman/science /usr/local/portage/layman/kde /usr/local/portage/layman/x11 /usr/local/overlays/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi akonadi alsa amd64 amr amrnb amrwb bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdaudio cdda cdr chm cli connection-sharing consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dhcpcd dirac djvu dri dts dv dvd dvdr ebook emboss encode exif fam flac floppy fortran ftp gdbm gdu gif git glitz gpm gtk h323 iconv imagemagick ithreads java5 java6 jpeg kde kvm laptop lcdfilter lcms lensfun libffi libnotify live lzma lzo mad mailwrapper matroska mmx mmxext mng mp2 mp3 mp3tunes mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib mysql natspec ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp oscar pam pango pcre pdf perl phonon png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 raw readline rtc samba sdl semantic-desktop session smp speex spell srt sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification subversion svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff truetype udev unicode usb v4l2 vdpau vim vim-syntax visualization vorbis webkit wifi x264 x86emu xattr xcb xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="braindump flow karbon kexi kpresenter krita tables words" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Could you please try again with version 1.9.2? And give me the output of eselect fontconfig list?
