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Themeworld.com has an impressive list of fonts and smilies and and and…

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posted by erin at 04:52 PM on 21 December 2003  tag in del.icio.us Digg!
tags: webstuff
 

Re: truetype fonts

XftConfig contains scalable fonts only. bitmap fonts can’t possibly be anti-aliased (and anti-aliasing is what XftConfig is there for).

> Can one get ride of one of the files?

If you remove /etc/X11/fs/config, X will stop working.
If you remove /etc/X11/XftConfig, antialiasing will act oddly.

Fonts in X

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posted by erin at 11:26 AM on 21 December 2003  tag in del.icio.us Digg!
tags: linux
 
posted by erin at 10:38 AM on 20 December 2003  tag in del.icio.us Digg!
tags: gentoo / thinkpad / T23
 

ALSA does work, as I mentioned here, but it seems to have problems across a suspend-resume, i.e. it doesn’t work post-resume.

Previously used patches don’t seem to apply to newer Alsa modules.

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posted by erin at 04:01 PM on 19 December 2003  tag in del.icio.us Digg!
tags: gentoo / thinkpad / T23 / alsa
 

Didn’t notice until now that my CD-RW/DVD player wasn’t loading properly – you can tell how much I use it, eh? ;-)

I’d already built the kernel with the correct SCSI modules (see references, below).
I’d also already added “hdc=ide-scsi” to my grub boot parameters.

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posted by erin at 11:36 AM on 19 December 2003  tag in del.icio.us Digg!
tags: thinkpad / gentoo / T23