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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE - XFree86-4.2.0 problem?
From:       Toshitaka Fujioka <toshitaka () kde ! gr ! jp>
Date:       2002-03-31 8:24:21
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On Saturday 30 March 2002 12:34, Matt and Sarah wrote:
> I have a problem with some kde apps freezing my desktop.  The symptoms
> are that certain applications (mostly Konqueror and Kcontrol centre)
> will freeze my screen from time to time - this does not happen all the
> time with these applications, and it seems to occur randomly.  Knode,
> Kate and Krusader seem to be fine.
>
> Even though the screen is frozen, the system is still running, the mouse
> still moves, but i can't click anything.  Also i can't switch to another
> terminal using ctrl+alt+F1, nor can i restart the X server with
> ctrl+alt+backspace.  Trying to use alt+sysrq+r has no effect either.
>
> I have heard of a couple of similar issues with other people.  It seems
> this started happening when i converted to XFree86-4.2.  It happens with
> KDE 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 3RC3 (RPMS) and 27032002CVS (compiled from source).
>
> I am running Mandrake 8.2 (although it happens on 8.1 also).
>
> Any ideas what might be causing this conflict would be greatly
> appreciated.

Do you use Anti Aliasing font and embedded bitmap font having truetype
font ? 

If you use Anti Aliasing font and embedded bitmap font having truetype
font, I think that freetype causes this problem. Because, I had this problem 
(completely freeze) previously. And when I applied the attached a patch and
did recompiling of freetype and reinstall of freetype, this problem was 
solved.

I think that the handling of embedded bitmap font in truetype font with
freetype was a problem.

I hope this help solves your problem.

PS: I use XFree86 4.2.0 and Freetype CVS STABLE version.
     Current stable version is 2.0.9.
-- 
Toshitaka Fujioka
http://www.kde.org                The K Desktop Environment Project
                                                    fujioka@kde.org
http://www.kde.gr.jp               Japan KDE User's Group
                                                    toshitaka@kde.gr.jp

-- A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.  Lao-zi --  




["freetype2.diff" (text/x-diff)]

diff -ur freetype2.orig/include/freetype/config/ftoption.h freetype2/include/freetype/config/ftoption.h
--- freetype2.orig/include/freetype/config/ftoption.h	Fri Jan 11 12:41:17 2002
+++ freetype2/include/freetype/config/ftoption.h	Mon Mar 11 01:02:04 2002
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@
   /* embedded bitmaps in all formats using the SFNT module (namely         */
   /* TrueType & OpenType).                                                 */
   /*                                                                       */
-#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_EMBEDDED_BITMAPS
+#undef TT_CONFIG_OPTION_EMBEDDED_BITMAPS
 
 
   /*************************************************************************/
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@
   /* By undefining this, you will only compile the code necessary to load  */
   /* TrueType glyphs without hinting.                                      */
   /*                                                                       */
-#undef TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER
+#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER
 
 
   /*************************************************************************/

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