Re: Frustrated with anti-aliasing
same problem here *After* installing a lot of Windows TTF fonts (+1000 files)
however AA worked before, and is now working too.
I experienced enormous slowdown (10 min's to startup KDE with PII 300Mhz
128Mb RAM).
$ top revealed a lot of processor usage by the kdeinit's and later
by the kmail konqueror etc processes
That's why you get the gray screen, it's *still* starting up...
I suggest to minimize the number of fonts in your truetype dir, it helped
with me.
I do not run the xfttf or xfs-ttf font servers, it gets its info (as i
believe) from the fonts.dir file i maked with mkttfdir from the fttool
package
hope it helps you
P.
Ps : i have an MGA G200 Matrox card working with latest XF4 CVS pull
PPS : check for the RENDER extention with xdpyinfo, if it is there you must
have AA with your Xserver
Op donderdag 15 maart 2001 18:40, schreef mino59@mindspring.com:
> Let me preface this by saying that I have read every posting in this
> mailing list, the recent article in linuxplanet and all documents available
> at www.xfree86.org/~keithp.
>
> I am running debian unstable and I have an ATI Xpert98 card, which I
> believe is an ATI Rage128 card.
>
> All my packages were last updated from unstable this morning. I do not have
> any packages from the rkrusty site.
>
> When I turned on anti-aliasing I ended up with a grey screen and a mouse
> cursor. So.... I downgraded the libfreetype package with the one available
> in debian/testing. Is this a sufficient downgrade??? I did not see any
> older packages anywhere on the debian ftp site. After the libfreetype
> downgrade, KDE starts up VERY VERY slowly and I still end up with a grey
> screen and a mouse cursor. At this point I log in as root and change
> antialiasing to false in my kdeglobal configuration file and then
> everything works fine (but no antialiasing of course).
>
> My Xftconfig file matches the one suggested by keithp.
>
> 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.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what is going on???
>
> Further info/questions:
>
> 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
>
> 2. I have xfs running (does it make a difference?).
>
> 3. Which is the right configuration for Xfree86, with or without the glx
> and dri modules???
>
> 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. If I echo $QT_XFT
> I get "0".
> I added set QT_XFT = true to my /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file, but I don't
> know if this is the right place or even if it's necessary. Plus, it didn't
> help.
>
>
> Well, any assistance would be much appreciated.
>
> Mino
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