Bug 111318 – New modular xorg-x11 does not load unscaled fonts.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andrey Falko 2005-11-02 22:25:39 UTC]

Here is the section of xorg.conf:

        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/freefont"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/terminus"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/unifont"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz"

If I take off the ":unscaled" off of the three fonts that have it, Xorg loads
fine. It refused to load unscaled ones.

If needed I can reproduce Xorg's log.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. unmerge old xorg-x11.
2. unmask and emerge modular xorg-x11 (7.0.0 rc1).
3. attempt to load fonts with the unscaled option.

Actual Results:  
Xorg does not load.

Expected Results:  
It should load as it did before.


Note also that I had a version of xorg monotithic cvs build from October 30
2005, and this bug did not arise then.

[Comment 1 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2005-11-13 11:51:40 UTC]

Give rc2 a try.  If this is still an issue, post a bug at https://bugs.
freedesktop.org and post the bug # here.

Also, make sure you're not missing anything required for the unscaled portion to 
work.  If the problem appeared in modular it's possible that there's some weird 
package you need to make this work.

[Comment 2 Andrey Falko 2005-11-13 17:43:19 UTC]

Submitted bug to xorg devs after RC2 not being able to load unscaled fonts. Here
is the link to the submission:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5038

[Comment 3 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-11-13 19:18:53 UTC]

Thanks!

[Comment 4 Andrey Falko 2005-11-14 13:34:42 UTC]

They fixed it: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5047

[Comment 5 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-11-14 19:06:12 UTC]

OK, but it's not fixed in Gentoo yet.

[Comment 6 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-11-14 19:06:52 UTC]

Changing to UPSTREAM, pending addition of this fix to Gentoo either via patch or
a new upstream release.

[Comment 7 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2005-11-20 21:48:20 UTC]

This was fixed upstream.

[Comment 8 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2005-11-27 11:48:13 UTC]

Ah, forgot about this bug.  Fix was just added to libXfont-0.99.2-r1.