Need help with FONTS

[David Anderson]

Alright...this is a strange one. Hoping someone here can help me.

The problem is after upgrading to XFree86 v4.0.2 my fonts look ugly. Not Netscape fonts or anything like that - I'm talking just the XWindows layout itself. For example, I open up an editor and start typing in characters - they look horrible. I click on the 'K' button and browse through the menus - the characters look horrible.

I was running XFree86 v3.0.1 + KDE v2.0.1. Fonts looked great.

Backed up XFree86 v3.0.1 and went to 4.0.2 - fonts look like crap.

Restore XFree86 v3.0.1 - fonts look great.

Reinstall XFree86 v4.0.2 - fonts look like crap.

You get the idea. Resolution on both was 800x600 @ 24bit color depth - I've confirmed this.

Laptop is an IBM Thinkpad 390x with a NeoMagic video chipset.

I've always wanted to run XFree86 4.xx but the NeoMagic drivers in 4.0.1 sucked, but in 4.0.2 they fixed various bugs which allows it to work now.

I'd love to have it working like it was under 3.0.1 - if anyone can help I'd really be thankful.

Also, here an interesting note...not sure if it's relevant. I took screenshots under X 4.0.2 so I could show you guys the problem. Thing is, when I view the screenshot on my Windows computer the characters look fine...as if the problem never existed. So it seems like a display issue, but I'm not sure what given both installations of X are running at same resolution / depth.

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David W. Anderson - dave@horrordvds.com

[mdwatts]

You can change the order of the fonts in XF86Config-4 (is that the new config file name?). Try putting the 100dpi as the first line in the config file or experiment with the order and restart X.

Also in the KDE Control Centre you can change the default fonts etc. And in most of the KDE apps you can also do the same.

There is also a way to install TrueType fonts. See the NHF on the subject.

Hope this helps some.

[jayallenaugen]

If your fonts look great in v3.0.1, the why don't you copy you /usrX11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory over to the corrosponding directory in 4.0.2. Then copy your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config file over as well. That should do the trick.

[David Anderson]

No luck on either suggestion. Though I didn't try TTF.

Even the cursor looks a little too blocky, instead of the smoothness it had in 3.0.1. Would that be a font related problem?

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David W. Anderson - dave@horrordvds.com

[minimoog]

are you shure you removed all of 3.01 including all its fonts,then loaded in 4.02 and then all its fonts.it may seam silly to ask but its been known to happen.

[skweegie]

have you tried running X @ a different depth?

try 16 and if your card allows it, 32...

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[Dave Anderson]

I'm sure that 3.0.1 was completely removed, and that 4.0.2 was installed with fonts.

16bit color depth didn't help. 32bit isn't supported.

Other suggestions?

In case anyone doesn't know I'm offering a FREE SB Live Card to anyone who solves this problem!

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David W. Anderson

[rod]

This may or may not help.... copy your /etc/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to /etc/X11.

I use Debian and during the upgrade, Debian's package manager suggested this would be a good thing.

Regards,
Rod