[ft-devel] Re: xorg crashes with freetype2-2.1.10

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "Hin-Tak" == Hin-Tak Leung <hintak_leung at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

>> You also need the freetype module loaded in X.

Hin-Tak> yes, I Know that - how else can I view web pages with
Hin-Tak> truetype fonts?!

Mozilla uses client-side fonts via libXft.  The crash in question is
in the X server's freetype module which supports server-side fonts.

You'll need to use an app which uses the (older) server-side font
support to trigger the bug.

An easy choice is xfd(1x) with a -fn option. 

Eg:

  xfd -fn -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-m-0-iso10646-1

should trigger the bug if you have the freetype module loaded and
an entry in a fonts.dir file in your fontpath that points that XLFD
to a scalable font.

-JimC
-- 
James H. Cloos, Jr. <cloos at jhcloos.com>