Font Mystery
I've got a strange and frustrating font mystery going on:
I have two Debian partitions on a machine that I just built, one is a
small testing partition for trying out various software that I don't
want leaving residue on my main partition, trying out various changes,
etc.. The second partition is my main partition for actual use.
Both were built as follows:
woody base install only
upgraded to sid
2.6.0-test11 kernel
various packages like less, gpm, vim, w3m, etc.
x-widows-system
VIA Epia binaries manually installed, X is using the via driver.
gnome-desktop environment
Then:
msttcorefonts
x-ttcidfont-conf
Now, this is where things get weird... at this point on the testing
partition, I fired up Mozilla and Mozilla-Firebird. Beautiful fonts,
nice and crisp... no more Apple ][ look!
Great!
installed msttcorefonts and x-ttcidfont-conf on my main partition....
fired up Mozilla - boy is that ugly.. fired up Mozilla-Firebird... wow.
ugly.
after trying with no success to get everything working, I reinstalled
again from woody base on up. Still no luck.
copied the XF86config from the testing partition to the main
partition... no change.
copied XftConfig over... again, no change.
I am baffled by what I could possibly have done differently on the two
partitions! I would really like to get anti-aliased fonts working on
my main system.
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