[ This isn't a DRI issue, please move to Xpert ]
On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 18:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm trying to get sub-pixel font antialiasing to work on my Compaq laptop > with XFree86 4.2.0. I have a Radeon Mobility M6 LY and am testing AA > in KDE 3.0.2. > > At the moment, regular AA is working, but it's pretty ugly on my LCD screen. > So I tried enabling sub-pixel AA with KDE control panel, and it didn't > make any difference (after restarting X server). Xft is client side, no need to restart the server. (Of course, with things like KDE, it can be hard to determine the client that actually uses the library :). > After some reading I decided to try setting it up manually, so I > editing all the Xft config files I could find: > > /etc/X11/XftConfig > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig > ~/.xftconfig > > and I made sure the line: > > match edit rgba = rgb; > > was in all of them. But that didn't make any difference either. I can tell > it's not working because my fonts look nothing like the sub-pixel AA > examples I found online (or like ClearType in XP). It can be hard to tell the difference without something like xmag or xzoom. > I also tried "match edit rgba = vrgb;" and "match edit rgba = bgr;" and > none of them made any difference. Some permutations didn't work here either when I played with them, don't remember which ones exactly though. > How can I find out if my setting is even being used? Nothing is output into > XFree86.0.log about Xft. Does Xft even have a logfile? Don't think so, but I did get an error message from clients when there was a problem with the config file. > Is sub-pixel AA possibly unsupported with the Radeon Mobility? Or does > regular AA support imply sub-pixel AA support? If one thing works, so should the other, yes. The render extension will fall back to software rendering if the driver doesn't support hardware acceleration for a requested operation, and the radeon driver doesn't have any hardware acceleration for render yet anyway. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
