[lug] TrueType Fonts RPM

[Elyse Grasso]

There was nothing mentioning fonts in the XF86Config-4 file at all. 
(Something odd about the way RedHat 7.0 configures things, I think.) 

I was playing with some things yesterday and finally got things working.

Elyse
On Sunday 01 April 2001 10:30, you wrote:
> Elyse,
>
> Rob is a friend (& probably knows more about Linux than I ever will), so
> I'm not going to send this to the list & have anyone think I'm being
> critical of his efforts.
>
> FWIW, I've never managed to get one of these RPMs to give me the TTF
> fonts immediately. I *have* always mamanged to get them to work
> eventually, & the improvement is dramatic, so its worth persevering.
>
> 1) Is the TTF fonts directory the first one listed in your XF86Config
> file?
> 2) Is there a fonts.dir file in the TTF directory?
> 3) Does it show the spec for each font?
>
> Elyse Grasso wrote:
> > xfs is running (with the same symptoms). The whole machine has been
> > bounced several times since I installed the fonts: it's a laptop, and I
> > shut it down between uses.
>
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