Couple of days ago I asked for help regarding some odd font rendering problems I was having.
This is just to let y'all know that the new binary nVIDIA driver has fixed the font rendering problems I was having, where pixels were being dropped or left on at random (Problems #1 and #2 below). Thanks, Civileme, for the suggestion. As usual, you are right on the money. The anti-aliasing and identification problems (#3 and #4) remain. I'm coming to understand that #3 is a separate issue having to do with font selection and many missing TTF fonts on my system. The good news is that the new nVIDIA seems (so far) to be running flawlessly with my GeForce4 Ti 4600 card. KDE starts up much faster the screen is crisp. Very nice (so far). Note: nVIDIA has just put the newest drivers on their site this morning. Those are the ones that fixed my problems. Next stop: TwinView (like Xinerama but built into the driver/hardware) across a CRT and a DVI-I flatpanel. Dean ========== I wrote: <snip> :: I am having some strange font rendering problems that I can't figure :: out. There are actually three problems which I'm not even sure are :: related. Also I'm not sure if it's the driver, X, KDE, or Mandrake's :: configuration. I hope someone can point me North. :: <snip> :: My system: :: :: MoBo: Tyan Tiger S2466N w/ dual Athlon MP 1500+ (1.33GHz)CPUs :: :: Video Board: GeForce4 Ti4600 :: Monitor: -- Panasync S21 (CRT) :: -- operating resolution (1600x1200) :: :: Stock Mandrake: :: -- Stock 8.2 :: -- XFree 4.2.0 :: -- stock nv driver :: -- stock KDE :: -- font antialiasing is OFF by default in stock installation :: :: Problems: :: :: 1) missing pixels w/in font strokes. If I do a "refresh" of the :: desktop _some_ but not all of the missing pixels appear. The :: "shape" of fonts look fine, i.e. they actually look antialiased. :: :: 2) If I open a KDE Konsole window (black background, white font-face) :: and cat a bunch of stuff to the screen, or scroll the text there :: will be a lot of white isolated pixels remaining on w/in the black :: background. :: :: It is as though a font was written at a particular :: location, then when some other letter is written at same location :: (or a space is written) some of the pixels don't get turned off. A :: desktop refresh completely clears this up as well. :: :: I don't see this effect w/in an xterm (black background, white font) but :: the "missing pixels" problem of 1) is especially bad. :: :: 3) When I enable "antialiased fonts" w/in KDE (and restart KDE) :: all my fonts now look awful. I don't think it's the classic "abiword" :: font problem. How do I describe "awful"? The fonts all look "square" :: both w/in KDE and w/in Konqueror. However the fonts look noral w/in, :: say Mandrake control center (and emacs). :: :: Most importantly, turning on antialiasing did _not_ fix 1 and 2 above. :: :: :: Mandrake Specific problem: :: :: 4) Hardrake is not identifiying my GeForce4 at all. It says :: "NONE Generic VGA". When installing Mandrake 8.2, the installer :: identified the board as a GeForce3.
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