Fonts on Linux yet again

[Peter Alcibiades]

I confess to being baffled by the following.  Installed RR on my old Fedora 
Core 6 P3 laptop.  The fonts work fine.  But FC6 surely uses the most recent 
version of Xorg etc?  So in that case, how come it works, if the explanation 
for its not working on Debian etch is that RR is using some old method of 
accessing X11 fonts?

If you are all finding this tedious and irrelevant, just say, and I'll go off 
list with it.

Peter