Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org> wrote:
>> On 4/15/2010 2:25 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>>> I would also try media-fonts/freefont-ttf if you don't have that
>>> installed. I decompiled the flash on that page and it's just using the
>>> generic "_sans" font, which should let it use any sans-serif font on
>>> your system. Maybe it can only use TTF fonts? I'm not really sure.
>>
>> Wierd.  I have all the same fonts you do, plus a few extra, and still no
>> text in that flash.  Now that I know it's a font issue I might mess
>> around with my fonts and see if I can figure out what it's problem is.
>
> I think the default font paths in Gentoo were changed around a few
> months ago (at least in ~arch), as a last resort you may want to try
> unmerging all font packages and then emerging them again, and
> restarting X afterward. I don't remember if I had to edit font paths
> when that happened or not... but maybe check that too. :)

Specifically I thnik it was changed from /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ to
/usr/share/fonts/

Be sure the TTF path in your xorg.conf (if you have one) is pointing
to the correct place.