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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > 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 -- Grabel's Law 2 is not equal to 3 - not even for very large values of 2.
