Re: Nearly unreadable fonts with native resolution (1280x800) of my notebook (new to Debian, need help)
On (02/08/05 14:43), Hans-Peter Sulzer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have shortly installed Debian on my system (details of
> my configuration see below). It is running (even
> sound works).
>
> After I have changed XF86Config-4 (see below), to be able
> to use the native resolution of 1280x800 of my notebook
> (which works), the fonts (which looked good with interpolated
> resolution of 1024x768) are nearly unreadable, but not
> because they are too small, but because there seems to
> be a mixture of black and white (or grey) pixels.
>
> Can I adjust anything?
>
> I'm an owner of OS/2, so I have the wonderfully original
> Adobe Type 1 fonts (real Times New Roman, Helvetica,
> Courier, ...) which are looking better than the
> corresponding TT-Fonts (Arial and so on). How can I
> use them with Debian?
I can't help you with this but someone else may.
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Try commenting out
# FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
> Section "Files"
> FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
> # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "GLcore"
> Load "bitmap"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "ddc"
> Load "dri"
> Load "extmod"
> Load "freetype"
> Load "glx"
> Load "int10"
> Load "record"
> Load "speedo"
> Load "type1"
> Load "vbe"
> EndSection
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Clive
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