Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5
In 58965d8a0904151141u394849ckc7b241dddf686...@mail.gmail.com paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com (Paul Hartman) writes: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Konstantinos Agouros elw...@agouros.de wrote: Hi, I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse. Fonts are totally garbled. It looks like they were written with chalk and then somebody wiped over them. A redraw fixes is sometimes but then it gets garbled again. I am using nvidia-drivers 96.XX for legacy reasons. Check this list's archives from a couple weeks ago for a thread called Ugly fonts on some seb sites (sic), there were a couple of hints posted by Nikos Chantziaras that really made my fonts look a lot better in Firefox and friends. Maybe it will help you, too. The upgrade to the 96.XX version from ~x86 resolved it. -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elw...@agouros.de Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185 Captain, this ship will not survive the forming of the cosmos. B'Elana Torres
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5
In 20090416054846.ga9...@pacific.net.au zek...@gmail.com (Gregory Shearman) writes: In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: In 20090415113152.ga11...@pacific.net.au zek...@gmail.com (Gregory Shearman) writes: I solved the problem by adding nvidia-drivers (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86) to /etc/portage/package.keywords. The latest 96.XX driver was installed which was 96.43.11 You do need: =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.00.00 in /etc/portage/package.mask so that the latest (~x86) 96.XX driver will be installed. I'm not sure if it will work for you, but maybe it's work a try. Thanks for the tip. Do I need to rebuild anything but nvidia-drivers? No, I just added the nvidia drivers line to /etc/portage/package.keywords and emerged the nvidia-drivers. I hope it works for you. Yup it did. A great many thanks! -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elw...@agouros.de Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185 Captain, this ship will not survive the forming of the cosmos. B'Elana Torres
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5
Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Yup it did. A great many thanks! Somewhat on topic. How does one know what version of nvidia-drivers to use for their card? I went to the nvidia site and my card is not listed anywhere. I have a FX-5200 with 128Mbs of ram I think. I'm just curious cause I have trouble when I try to upgrade the drivers. I'm currently using nvidia-drivers-173.14.09. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Somewhat on topic. How does one know what version of nvidia-drivers to use for their card? I went to the nvidia site and my card is not listed anywhere. I have a FX-5200 with 128Mbs of ram I think. I'm just curious cause I have trouble when I try to upgrade the drivers. I'm currently using nvidia-drivers-173.14.09. The readme file in the driver archive (and on the unix download page at ndivia's site) contains the list of supported GPUs and which driver can operate them. The FX-5200 is listed as being supported by the legacy driver 173.14.xx series.
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Somewhat on topic. How does one know what version of nvidia-drivers to use for their card? I went to the nvidia site and my card is not listed anywhere. I have a FX-5200 with 128Mbs of ram I think. I'm just curious cause I have trouble when I try to upgrade the drivers. I'm currently using nvidia-drivers-173.14.09. The readme file in the driver archive (and on the unix download page at ndivia's site) contains the list of supported GPUs and which driver can operate them. The FX-5200 is listed as being supported by the legacy driver 173.14.xx series. OK. I looked on the site but couldn't find anything even close to my FX-5200. Maybe I was in the wrong place or something. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Somewhat on topic. How does one know what version of nvidia-drivers to use for their card? I went to the nvidia site and my card is not listed anywhere. I have a FX-5200 with 128Mbs of ram I think. I'm just curious cause I have trouble when I try to upgrade the drivers. I'm currently using nvidia-drivers-173.14.09. The readme file in the driver archive (and on the unix download page at ndivia's site) contains the list of supported GPUs and which driver can operate them. The FX-5200 is listed as being supported by the legacy driver 173.14.xx series. OK. I looked on the site but couldn't find anything even close to my FX-5200. Maybe I was in the wrong place or something. Here's the list section of the README file on the web: http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/180.44/README/appendix-a.html
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Hi, I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse. Fonts are totally garbled. It looks like they were written with chalk and then somebody wiped over them. A redraw fixes is sometimes but then it gets garbled again. I am using nvidia-drivers 96.XX for legacy reasons. One of my machines runs a GeForce4 card and uses the legacy 96.XX drivers. Anybody got a clue how to fix this? Do I need to change something in xorg.conf? I had the same problems with font smudging in *all* programs and on the kde desktop. It was almost impossible to even read the start menu. I solved the problem by adding nvidia-drivers (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86) to /etc/portage/package.keywords. The latest 96.XX driver was installed which was 96.43.11 You do need: =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.00.00 in /etc/portage/package.mask so that the latest (~x86) 96.XX driver will be installed. I'm not sure if it will work for you, but maybe it's work a try. -- Regards, Gregory. Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5
In 20090415113152.ga11...@pacific.net.au zek...@gmail.com (Gregory Shearman) writes: In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Hi, I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse. Fonts are totally garbled. It looks like they were written with chalk and then somebody wiped over them. A redraw fixes is sometimes but then it gets garbled again. I am using nvidia-drivers 96.XX for legacy reasons. One of my machines runs a GeForce4 card and uses the legacy 96.XX drivers. Anybody got a clue how to fix this? Do I need to change something in xorg.conf? I had the same problems with font smudging in *all* programs and on the kde desktop. It was almost impossible to even read the start menu. I solved the problem by adding nvidia-drivers (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86) to /etc/portage/package.keywords. The latest 96.XX driver was installed which was 96.43.11 You do need: =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.00.00 in /etc/portage/package.mask so that the latest (~x86) 96.XX driver will be installed. I'm not sure if it will work for you, but maybe it's work a try. Thanks for the tip. Do I need to rebuild anything but nvidia-drivers? Thanks, Konstantin -- Regards, Gregory. Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elw...@agouros.de Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185 Captain, this ship will not survive the forming of the cosmos. B'Elana Torres
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Konstantinos Agouros elw...@agouros.de wrote: Hi, I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse. Fonts are totally garbled. It looks like they were written with chalk and then somebody wiped over them. A redraw fixes is sometimes but then it gets garbled again. I am using nvidia-drivers 96.XX for legacy reasons. Check this list's archives from a couple weeks ago for a thread called Ugly fonts on some seb sites (sic), there were a couple of hints posted by Nikos Chantziaras that really made my fonts look a lot better in Firefox and friends. Maybe it will help you, too.
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: In 20090415113152.ga11...@pacific.net.au zek...@gmail.com (Gregory Shearman) writes: I solved the problem by adding nvidia-drivers (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86) to /etc/portage/package.keywords. The latest 96.XX driver was installed which was 96.43.11 You do need: =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.00.00 in /etc/portage/package.mask so that the latest (~x86) 96.XX driver will be installed. I'm not sure if it will work for you, but maybe it's work a try. Thanks for the tip. Do I need to rebuild anything but nvidia-drivers? No, I just added the nvidia drivers line to /etc/portage/package.keywords and emerged the nvidia-drivers. I hope it works for you. -- Regards, Gregory. Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
