Re: Mozilla with Freetype in Solaris

Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.unix
Organization University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nicolas Pioch <[email protected]> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|Hans Werner Strube wrote:
|> Oops, just I noticed that this bug occurs only with 8-bit PseudoColor visual,
|> not with 24-bit TrueColor. But as far as I remember, this did not hold
|> for my old Mozilla tests.
|
|Doesn't freetype require the XRENDER X11 extension ?

No - that's Xft, and recent versions will run without it, just slower.

|Solaris 9 drivers only advertise this extension when the display is 
|running in 24-bit(*), not when in 8-bit color mode.
|(*): and that's only when the display driver of your video card supports 
|it I believe -- mostly the m10 driver?

I think ffb is the only one in S9 that has support.

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