Re: Frustrated with anti-aliasing
mino59@mindspring.com wrote:
> I am running debian unstable and I have an ATI Xpert98 card, which I believe is an ATI Rage128 card.
I just checked on ATI's website; it's Mach64 based. This is probably
the cause for your problems... Debian unstable's Xfree4.0.2 doesn't
support the Render extension on this card. The only way (known to
me) is to compile Xfree from CVS and install it - I've done it, it
works then. However, it's certainly not for newbies... (BTW, if you
need to find out whether the installation "worked" you can find out
whether you now have the extension with the xdpyinfo command)
> My XFree86Config file was modified as suggested in the linuxplanet article. BTW, I tried two versions of XFree86Config, one with Load "glx"; Load "dri" and the other with these two modules commented out.
Doesn't matter, Debian's Xfree86 4.x doesn't contain any 3D
acceleration support for Mach64 cards (while there is, again, an
experimental driver for the card in a certain branch of the DRI
project's CVS).
> 1. I have lots and lots of type1 and truetype fonts, which are available to KDE (with antialiasing off). Is it possible this is slowing down KDE on startup with AA turned on? Since I have so may fonts I have not downloaded the fonts from www.xfree86.org/~keithp
There were reports of extreme slowdowns with AA enabled when you've
got too many fonts, I don't know if this has changed.
> 2. I have xfs running (does it make a difference?).
Shouldn't make a difference..
> 4. Do I need to modify any variables in QT in order to get things working? The linuxplanet article suggests setting QT_XFT to true.
I think this "just works" when the RENDER extension is available in
the X server and you switch it on in the control center. That worked
for me.
> Well, any assistance would be much appreciated.
Hope it helps :-)
-Malte #8-)
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