Relevant hardware: Intel 965 motherboard with onboard intel graphics
Just did a fresh installation of VL 6. Basically, used the defaults but opted for the "Full" installation and didn't install the boot loader as I have other linux distros installed and prefer grub. Everything went fine during the installation. Configured a boot entry for Vector in an existing grub menu.lst and successfully booted into Vector. Only problem is, the fonts are completely trashed on the login screen, just black squares and sqiggles where fonts should be. Managed to log in to xfce and all the fonts on all the apps and desktop appear the same as on the login screen. Everything is completely illegible; nothing can be read. Just for laughs, I opened up a console which I identified from the icon as the menus are illegible and typed in "xterm" at the prompt. Xterm opened up and surprisingly, the fonts were fine in xterm, but no where else. Lauchned firefox from the command line and the vast majority of the fonts were totally trashed but a few were perfectly OK. No error messages came up in xterm when I launched firefox.
I'm completely stumped. Assume it must be some problem in the font path, but nothing seems out of the ordinary there. Here's my xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
Load "xtrap"
Load "record"
Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
# Option "XkbLayout" "us" ## KEYBOARD_MAP!
Option "XkbModel" "" ## KEYBOARD_MODEL!
Option "Xkbvariant" "" ## KEYBOARD_VARIANT!
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
DisplaySize 336 269 # 96 DPI @ 1280x1024 (non 4:3 aspect)
Option "UseEdidFreqs" "1"
#DisplaySize 380 310 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "VSC"
ModelName "VP191s"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertRefresh values to use DDC:
HorizSync 30.0 - 82.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 85.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "CacheLines" # <i>
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "82G965 Integrated Graphics Controller"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "on"
EndSection
One additional point. Some time ago, I recall installing wolvix which is also slackware based and having the identical weird font problem. I have slackware 12 installed which works fine, but not the most recent slackware. I assume it must be some issue with the underlying slackware base font configuration and my hardware but haven't uncovered anything with my googling. Finally, xorg logs show nothing remarkable or any error messages that I can find.