You didn't specify which XFree86-4.0.3 rpms you were using. Last I heard
(and admittedly it's been a week or so since I thought about it), only the
4.0.3-3 supported aa fonts. But you had to update glibc to 2.2 to use them.
The other alternative is to compile qt, kde and xfree86 yourself with aa font
support included. Big job there. Here's the site that helped me alot:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/3093/3/
(Though I went the glibc2.2 path). Here's the site for that:
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/Help___How_To/Glibc-2_2/glibc-2_2.html
-s
On Monday 09 April 2001 11:28 pm, you wrote:
> I'd recently upgraded my Mandrake 7.2 installation to KDE 2.1.1, XFree
> 4.03 and QT 2.3 using the officially available RPMs. There was a "use
> anti aliasing for fonts" option in "Styles" section of KDE Control
> Center, so I ticked it, rebooted it and...there doesn't seem to be any
> difference?? At first I thought that my eyes were simply not sensitive
> enough (awful eyesight really...) to detect the difference, but I took
> a look at my friend's desktop running a beta of Redmond Linux with AA
> enabled...and it DEFINITELY looks different! No jagged edges around
> fonts at all! Even using the "magnify" app. On the other hand, on my
> machine, letters look really jaggged when magnified. Tested this with
> Konqueror and the KDE desktop items.
>
> Why doesn't AA seem to be working in my machine? Is it because:
> 1) AA only works with some fonts and not others?
> 2) AA doesn't work with some graphics cards (but both my friend and I
> are using 3Dfx Banshees..)
> 3) I had installed the above mentioned updates in the "wrong order"? If
> so, what's the correct order?
>
> Also, on a less related issue, since updating to XFree86 4.03, I get
> booted to a dark screen if I click on "restart X" or do a Ctrl-Alt-
> Backspace. Never happened before the update.
>
> Any ideas what I could do about these?
> Thanks in advance!
