Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:10:36 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Robinson <greg@rosevale.com.au> To: jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net (John Merryweather Cooper) Cc: jason-dated-999134568.3c3c6f@mastaler.com (Jason R . Mastaler), greg@rosevale.com.au (Greg Robinson), freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xfree86 4.1.0 font problem. Message-ID: <200108220440.f7M4eaV04467@sad.rosevale.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20010821183042.A1188@johncoop> from John Merryweather Cooper at "Aug 21, 2001 06:30:42 pm"
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[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > On 2001.08.21 18:22 Jason R. Mastaler wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Greg Robinson wrote: > > > > > I've installed XFree86 4.1.0 from the ports collection, and I'm > > > having trouble viewing some fonts using either linux netscape 4.77 > > > or freebsd netscape 4.76. > > > > > > The font's are just unreadable. > > > > I'm having the same problem after upgrading from XFree86-3. > > > > > I have a NVidia GeForce2 MX rev 161 as probed by Xfre86 and I'm > > > using the nv driver which comes with 4.1.0 > > > > Similarily, I'm using the nv driver with a Diamond Viper 770 card. > > However, I have the same problem on Linux as well, so it's probably a > > general XFree86 issue. > > > > > I'm running 4.3-STABLE as of a few weeks ago. > > > > 4.3-RELEASE. > > > > -- > > (TMDA - http://tmda.sourceforge.net) > > (SPAM reduction for qmail systems) > > > > I'm also running a Diamond Viper 770 (mine's an Ultra). I had similar > problems with font readability until I discovered that the problem (at > least for me) was the DPI X was reporting for my monitor. I have a 19" > LG 995E running at 1280x1024. X was reporting 72dpi, but the Gimp > configuration dialog was reporting about 102dpi. Passing -dpi 102 to > the X server helped big time. Well, this is interesting. I have the exact same monitor. Heavy arn't they? :-) My resolution is currently set to: dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (374x271 millimeters) resolution: 87x96 dots per inch I have had limited success with TrueType fonts after another marathon session last night. I shall try your suggestion as well. Can you try a particular web page for me? http://www.whitepages.com.au/ And do a reload. The font's for me just turn really bad. As per this screen capture: http://www.rosevale.com.au/~greg/pics/fonts.gif You can see why I'm perplexed... Thankx, Greg. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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