Use the Chinese TrueType font library for non-XFree86 X Servers

Due to the lack of relevant technical information, XFree86-3.3.3.1 on the current market more popular new display card can not provide the corresponding support. these display cards include the i740 chip-based AGP display card. fortunately, Precision Insight's XBF_i740 X Server provides support for this display chip. you can obtain the latest XBF_i740 X Server from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/xbf/or ftp: // ftp.precisioninsight.com/pub/pi/XBF.
Because we cannot obtain the XBF_i740 X Server Source code, we cannot compile the support for Chinese TrueType fonts into this X Server. you must use X Font Server (xfs) to provide support for Chinese TrueType fonts for XBF_i740 X Server. the procedure is as follows:
1. obtain and install XBF_i740 X Server
Refer to the description in the software package.
2. Configure and run X Font Server (xfs)
1) Create an X Font Server Configuration File
The default configuration file of X Font Server is/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config. if the directory/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs does not exist in your system, check the/etc/X11/fs directory and copy the config file to/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config. you must modify the file as needed. the most important two points are: add the Chinese TrueType font directory/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/tt/to "catalogue" and add a line "deferglyphs = 16 ". the modified config file is roughly as follows:
# Font server configuration file
# $ Xconsorexp: config. cpp, v 1.7 91/08/22 11:39:59 rws Exp $
Clone-self = on
Use-syslog = off
Catalogue =/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc /,
/Usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo /,
/Usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75 dpi /,
/Usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100 dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/tt/
Deferglyphs = 16
Error-file =/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs-errors
# In decipoints
Default-point-size = 120
Default-resolutions = 100,100
2) run X Font Server
You can run the following command on the command line to start X Font Server:
[Tlc @ pht/] #/usr/X11R6/bin/xfs &
X Font Server will wait for the request at port 7100. for convenience, you 'd better add this line to the System Startup File, such as/etc/rc. d/rc. local, so that the system can automatically start X Font Server every time it is started.
3. Set X Server startup parameters
If you want to use the Chinese TrueType font library in a non-XFree86 X Server, you must add the option "-deferglyphs 16" when starting X Server ". if the system startup mode you set is text mode (runlevel is 3), you must modify the/usr/X11R6/bin/startx file and change the last line
Xinit $ clientargs ---deferglyphs 16 $ serverargs
If you set the system startup mode to graphical mode (runlevel is 5), that is, to start X Server with xdm, you must modify the/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers file, change the last line
: 0 local/usr/X11R6/bin/X-deferglyphs 16
4. Run XBF_i740 X Server and set the path of the Chinese TrueType font library
You can use
[Tlc @ pht/] # startx
Start X Server. For a system in graphical mode, log on to the xdm logon window, And the xdm program starts X Server. Then, you must enter the command on the terminal command line in x mode.
[Tlc @ pht/] # xset fp + tcp/localhost: 7100
To set the path of the X Server Chinese TrueType font. to avoid manual running of this command every time you start X Server, you can add this command to the system's/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc (for text mode) or in the/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession (for graphic mode) file, the X Server will automatically execute the preceding command at each startup.
Now, you can use the Chinese TrueType font in a non-XFree86 X Server.