[gentoo-user] Wiki Howto: Xorg and Fonts, did I fatally screw up the directions?

[gentoo-user] Wiki Howto: Xorg and Fonts, did I fatally screw up the directions?

[Rob]

The first thing I am not certain of is my recompilation of Xorg using 
the suggested USE flags.  I put the new USE flags in /etc/make.conf and 
then issued the command:  "emerge -N xorg-x11".  Will that work, or do I 
have to do the emerge with "emerge --newuse --enable bitmap-fonts 
truetype-fonts type1-fonts" explicitely?  Perhaps my understanding of 
USE flags is wrong for recompiling packages.

I wonder about this, because I enable the xtt module in my 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf, but I get an error message that the xtt module 
cannot be found.  Using slocate I confirmed that xtt is nowhere to be found.

I would ask the same question for compiling freetype and the fonts 
suggested.

In any case, Windowmaker runs as superuser, but fails as a simple user. 
  It claims it can't find any fonts.

I guess I haven't gotten to first base yet.

Thanks,

Rob.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Wiki Howto: Xorg and Fonts, did I fatally screw up the directions?

[Michael Mauch]

Rob wrote:

> The first thing I am not certain of is my recompilation of Xorg using 
> the suggested USE flags.  I put the new USE flags in /etc/make.conf and 
> then issued the command:  "emerge -N xorg-x11".  Will that work, or do I 
> have to do the emerge with "emerge --newuse --enable bitmap-fonts 
> truetype-fonts type1-fonts" explicitely?  Perhaps my understanding of 
> USE flags is wrong for recompiling packages.

emerge has no "--enable" option (you can see this in "man emerge"), and
you don't need the -N option if you re-emerge a single package.
If you want to set USE flags, edit /etc/make.conf (search for USE
there).

To see the USE flags for the xorg-x11 package, try

  emerge -av xorg-x11

(look in the man page to find out what the -a and -v options mean; after
all it could be possible that I tell you something wrong).

The output of that command is (here):

|  These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
|
|  Calculating dependencies ...done!
|  [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 -3dfx +3dnow +bitmap-fonts -cjk
|  -debug -dlloader -dmx +doc -font-server -insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal
|  +mmx +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk -sse -static +truetype-fonts
|  +type1-fonts (-uclibc) +xprint* +xv 0 kB
|
|  Total size of downloads: 0 kB
|
|  Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No]

The USE flags prepended with a "+" are enabled, the ones starting with
"-" are disabled, the "*" after "+xprint" means that it's a changed USE
flag since the last emerge of xorg-x11.

bitmap-fonts, truetype-fonts and type1-fonts are all enabled here, and I
don't have them listed in my USE flags in /etc/make.conf. They are the
default (so some people can disable them if they want to).

> I wonder about this, because I enable the xtt module in my 
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but I get an error message that the xtt module 
> cannot be found.  Using slocate I confirmed that xtt is nowhere to be found.

I don't know whether xorg has an "xtt" module. My xorg.conf has
"freetype" and "type1", but no "xtt".
 
Regards...
		Michael
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wiki Howto: Xorg and Fonts, did I fatally screw up the directions?

[Rob]

Michael Mauch wrote:
> Rob wrote:
> 
> 
>>The first thing I am not certain of is my recompilation of Xorg using 
>>the suggested USE flags.  I put the new USE flags in /etc/make.conf and 
>>then issued the command:  "emerge -N xorg-x11".  Will that work, or do I 
>>have to do the emerge with "emerge --newuse --enable bitmap-fonts 
>>truetype-fonts type1-fonts" explicitely?  Perhaps my understanding of 
>>USE flags is wrong for recompiling packages.
> 
> 
> emerge has no "--enable" option (you can see this in "man emerge"), and
> you don't need the -N option if you re-emerge a single package.
> If you want to set USE flags, edit /etc/make.conf (search for USE
> there).
> 
> To see the USE flags for the xorg-x11 package, try
> 
>   emerge -av xorg-x11
> 
> (look in the man page to find out what the -a and -v options mean; after
> all it could be possible that I tell you something wrong).
> 
> The output of that command is (here):
> 
> |  These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> |
> |  Calculating dependencies ...done!
> |  [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 -3dfx +3dnow +bitmap-fonts -cjk
> |  -debug -dlloader -dmx +doc -font-server -insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal
> |  +mmx +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk -sse -static +truetype-fonts
> |  +type1-fonts (-uclibc) +xprint* +xv 0 kB
> |
> |  Total size of downloads: 0 kB
> |
> |  Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
> 
> The USE flags prepended with a "+" are enabled, the ones starting with
> "-" are disabled, the "*" after "+xprint" means that it's a changed USE
> flag since the last emerge of xorg-x11.
> 
> bitmap-fonts, truetype-fonts and type1-fonts are all enabled here, and I
> don't have them listed in my USE flags in /etc/make.conf. They are the
> default (so some people can disable them if they want to).
> 
> 
>>I wonder about this, because I enable the xtt module in my 
>>/etc/X11/xorg.conf, but I get an error message that the xtt module 
>>cannot be found.  Using slocate I confirmed that xtt is nowhere to be found.
> 
> 
> I don't know whether xorg has an "xtt" module. My xorg.conf has
> "freetype" and "type1", but no "xtt".
>  
> Regards...
> 		Michael
Thank you Michael,

I will print this out and go back and try again if needed.  Its strange 
that if Xorg has no xtt module, that xorgconfig or whatever the 
configuration program is called now automatically put it in the 
xorg.conf, although commented out.

Sincerely,  Rob
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Re: [gentoo-user] Wiki Howto: Xorg and Fonts, did I fatally screw up the directions?

[Hans-Werner Hilse]

Hi,

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:54:34 -0700
Rob <europa100@comcast.net> wrote:

> I wonder about this, because I enable the xtt module in my 
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but I get an error message that the xtt module 
> cannot be found.  Using slocate I confirmed that xtt is nowhere to be found.

It's not compiled on gentoo, AFAIK. For that reason xorgconfig has a
dummy entry for it - it _theoretically_ can be compiled from the xorg
sources. xtt is a little bit outdated, AFAIK. I'd suggest using
freetype instead - although it doesn't do artifical weights and slants
of the fonts. If you really, really need xtt, you'd have to make an
overlay ebuild and add that relevant line to the "host.cf"-generation.

-hwh
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