On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Simon Geard wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 18:37 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> > Tasos Drosopoulos wrote:
> > > Anyway, my box uses an nvidia card and for 3d graphics accel I use the 
> > > nvidia driver (version 8762). Switching back to the slower nv that comes 
> > > with Xorg7.1, lo and behold, the fonts were visible and wine seems to 
> > > work fine.
> > 
> > Indeed, there is an incompatibility between 8xxx nvidia drivers and Xorg 
> > 7.1. It 
> > can be (reportedly) worked around by adding to xorg.conf:
> > 
> > Option "RenderAccel" "no"
> > 
> > but I can't check this because I have an ATI video card.
> 
> In my experience, enabling sub-pixel antialiasing seems to avoid the
> problem too.
> 
> Simon.
> 

Yes. Without the 
        Option  "RenderAccel"   "false"
fonts with the proprietary nvidia driver are not visible. 

Simon, could you please advise re what option enables sub-pixel 
antialiasing?

TIA
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