From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Aug 21 18:30:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from yoda.bmi.net (yoda.bmi.net [204.57.191.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4072237B40D for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:30:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net) Received: from johncoop.MSHOME (drumheller-router.bmi.net [206.63.201.3] (may be forged)) by yoda.bmi.net (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA27368; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:30:14 -0700 Received: from johncoop.MSHOME (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by johncoop.MSHOME (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f7M1Ugu01235; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:30:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:30:42 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper To: "Jason R . Mastaler" Cc: Greg Robinson , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xfree86 4.1.0 font problem. Message-ID: <20010821183042.A1188@johncoop> References: <200108180627.f7I6RuV01842@sad.rosevale.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: ; from jason-dated-999134568.3c3c6f@mastaler.com on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 18:22:47 -0700 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.7 Lines: 35 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. jmc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message