bbitmap Xserver module dropped?

Fri Aug 4 03:22:37 PDT 2006

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 11:06:07AM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:46:21AM +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > I recognized recently, that with xorg-server 1.1.99.3 (and maybe even
> > before) the bitmap Xserver module is no longer available. But using
> > bitmap fonts is still possible. :-)
> > 
> > Which module is now responsible for rendering bitmap fonts? Is it
> > freetype?  Assuming that it is freetype, is now reencoding to legacy
> > encodings on-the-fly supported? So it would be sufficient to install
> > only the bitmaps fonts in unicode encoding and use mkfontscale without
> > "-l" option to also generate the XLFDs for legacy encodings for the
> > unicode bitmap fonts?
> 
> It's just built in, rather than being loaded.

Ok. Thanks.

Best regards,
Stefan

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