Following up to my own posting...

I found that creating a new XF86Config file with xf86cfg solved the problem 
with the irregular spacing (but not the mkfontscale issue).  Unfortunately, 
by default it sets the color depth to 8 bits.  Adding a "DefaultDepth 24" 
line to XF86Config provied 24 bit color as expected and alse makes the font 
problem REAPPEAR!???  I had no idea that the fonts were color depth dependent 
:-)

On Friday 04 April 2003 10:02, Sverre Froyen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After upgrading to XFree86 version 4.3.0 and KDE 3.1.0, I notice that
> several fonts in, e.g., konsole are displayed with incorrect
> intra-character spacing. For instance, the "Fixed [Misc]" font displays
> something like
>
> 	 T h e  Q u i c k  B r o w n  F o x ...
>
> with slightly more uneven spacings.
>
> Perhaps related, the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ has a file,
> fonts.scale, that lists 24 fonts.  However, if I run the mkfontscale
> command in that directory, I end up with a fonts.scale file with no fonts
> listed.
>
> Has anyone else problems with the font spacings in KDE and perhaps an idea
> about what I might be doing wrong?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Sverre
>
> PS: i386 NetBSD 1.6Q  XFree86 version 4.3.0 (27 February 2003)