Bug 55674
| Summary: | XFree86-4.1 and xfs badly render truetype fonts | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Leo Bergolth <leo> |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.2 | CC: | azeini, bradley.g.smith |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://leo.kloburg.at/x11-truetype/ | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2002-02-06 04:58:14 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Leo Bergolth
2001-11-04 15:34:13 UTC
Remove /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc from your font path, leaving only the :unscaled version there. One known cause for oddly scaled fonts, is if the X server cannot determine the display dimensions properly. Look at the XF86Config manpage, for the "DisplaySize" option. Try using that option to override this. Does this change anything? Thanks for your hint! Adding the "DisplaySize" option to my "Monitor" Section fixed my problem. Looks like the DPI settings were wrong. (Strange, I thought the default values are 75x75 DPI?) Maybe my screen resolution of 1152x864 confuses the X-server or my the nv (Nvidia) driver querys the wrong EDID values from my Monitor (IBM P70)? I've tried it on another RH 7.2 System with 1024x768, using the NVIDIA (not the nv) driver from www.nvidia.com and it worked without the DisplaySize option... I am also having similar font problems. I upgraded a system from RH 7.1 to RH 7.2 using the upgrade option. Many fonts displayed by Mozilla (0.95) show exactly the same problems. For example, Nick Petreley's site www.varlinux.org now displays with distorted fonts, whereas with RH 7.1 there were not any problems. My font problems went beyond that however. After the upgrade completed and I logged back into my account, all menu and display fonts in KDE were set to Arial Black! The root account on this system still has that setting as nothing I do seems to revert the fonts back to default. Many KDE apps still display the Arial Black font for menus (e.g. kuser) and text. I sure could use some help fixing this. Will I have to do a clean install of RH 7.2? Instead of an upgrade? Thanks, Brad bgsmith As an additional note: I did try setting the DisplaySize option in the monitor section of the config file. It had not effect that I could detect. The font rendering of, say, varlinx.org is still off in much the same way as described by Leo above. Thanks, Brad Am experiencing the same problem. How should I determine the value for the DisplaySize option, so that I can try it out? Please ignore previous comment. Found appropriate attributes for DisplaySize, and it also corrected my "thin fonts" problem. Not a terribly attractive solution for an end-user, though. I have similar problems with truetype fonts. After an upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2 nothing conncected with truetype fonts work anymore. I get wrong rendering and am not able to use them properly for writing documents. There seems to be a problem with UTF-8 too. I used to use Arial Unicode MS for viewing web pages in Farsi or other Unicode encoded pages. But since after the upgrade this is completley lost. I have had clean installs of 7.2 as well as updrages and the result is the same. This is crucial for example for our work on KDE's translation into Farsi. RH Linux 7.2 seems not to be useful in this regard. Does anyone know where the problem could be and how to fix this? A similar experience here. A resolution of "1152x864" produces identical
results to those posted by <leo.ac.at>. Adding the DisplaySize
option in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 solves this.
Other resolutions however ("1024x768" and "1280x960" tested) render the fonts
correctly and do not need that tweaking.
Hardware:
Video Card: ATI Rage 128 PF
Monitor: Sony CPD G220 (17")
The DisplaySize option is the correct way to fix this. It is viewed as a workaround my some people, however X has no way of guessing a monitor's dimensions if it can't probe them, other than just guessing. In this case, manual configuration by using DisplaySize is necessary. |