Hi All

Not sure if this is the best Slackware forum to start with. Anyway as a Slackware user for the last few years on an XF86 and as this forum gets more focus then the "Discussion forum for Slackware ARM." I thought this would be the best place to seek advice on Xorg and fonts.

I've installed Slackware on an odroid U3, ARM device, and have xfce and firefox running on it. Big hack.

But am having problems with fonts. I've been struggling with it for days and getting nowhere.

My /usr/share/fonts directory has these directories

100dpi/ 75dpi/ cyrillic/ encodings/ misc/ OTF/ Speedo/ TTF/ Type1/ util/

When I start xfce with

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.xfce

it starts successfully but the fonts are terrible. The appearance of some characters are as if they are crashing into each other with other characters being totally misrepresented.

From within xfce, if I start xterm then xpaint the text for xpaint look OK both in xterm and xpaint.

The text in xfce menus and dialog boxes is terrible as does the text in firefox.

I've attached an example in the file screenshot.png.

If I hack a bit more and remove all the above directories except for misc so the /usr/share/fonts directory has this directory

misc/


When I start xfce the text in xfce and dialog boxes is acceptable though a bit mono like.

I've attached an example in the file screenshot_misc.png.

In this scenario I can't start xpaint because of a warning -

"Unable to load any useable ISO8859 font"

If I run a standard arm Xubuntu I don't get these problems.

What have I done wrong? Have I missed some configuration steps. Am I trying to do the impossible?

I'm not even sure if I've given this Thread the right title!


Alex

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You really should have posted this on the ARM sub-forum. Slackware for ARM is not 100% equal to Slackware for Intel compatibles.
Did you do a full install of Slackware? Do you boot this ARM machine directly into Slackware, using the Slackware boot scripts, or are you running Slackware inside a chroot using a different OS as the host?

Eric

It might not just be a Slackware-ARM problem. I occasionally get corruption like that on Slackware-x86, usually just affecting a few characters so not as extreme.

Here's a similar thread with no solution yet.

Hi Alien Bob

I've installed just over 600 packages from Slackware-Arm. The partition layout has been untouched. The Kernel is that which came with the Odroid. I did a bit of hacking to get it to boot and to get the time using ntpdate, the Odroid hasn't a battery. I did a bit of hacking to get Xorg to start which was mainly setting up a conf file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d to explicitly set a path to the font files that I was using.

I boot directly into Slackware as follows

power on the Odroid
at the logon prompt, I logon as root!
at the command prompt On the command line the Fonts are OK as they in Xterm within xfce.

Could I be missing a step by not using startx to start xfce? I decided not to use startx because it put me into the TWM window manager. Once I was happy with xfce I was going to go back and configure, so that startx started xfce.

If I'd been doing an install on an X86 PC I would have used the DVD and setup. Followed the steps and everything would have worked. Though I do remember a step in setup about fonts when a message gets displayed about having to do something each time a new font is installed. Am I remembering correctly and would this be relevant?

Should I move this thread to the Arm list? If so how?

There was a similar problem that I reported in the odroid forum when using the standard Odroid Xubuntu install with the Matchbox window manager instead of XFCE. For that problem it was suggested that for the GPU .

My objective in all this was to see if I could get as far as getting a Porteus clone running on an Odroid. In my day to day computing I use Slackware, I rarely use Ubuntu. I had hoped that by installing Slackware on the Odroid I would get finer control in configuring the software and either not see the Fonts issue or easily overcome it. Maybe I was wrong, though I can't see why it shouldn't just work irrespective of

Alex

Try to use "xwmconfig" to select a different Window Manager like XFCE. Then you can use "startx" to start X.

Eric