From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: After upgrading to latest version of Xfs and XFREE-86 (4.3.0-2.90.43) All KDE applications no longer render antialised fonts. Mozilla and all Gnome Apps are OK. No antialised fonts appear in KDE font selector and the font 'Sans 10' which is the default font for KDE in RH9 is not even listed. XFS reports no errors on start up. No other font errors in X startup log. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-2.90.43 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Upgrade RH.9 with latest X 2.Log in to KDE desktop 3.Open any KDE application. - almost unreadable at 1152x864 4.Open gnome application. - fonts look fine. Actual Results: All KDE fonts are extremely small unreadable and not antialiased. Readability is SEVERLY compromised. Workaround - use large horrible unantialised fonts. Expected Results: The base font should appear the same whether running KDE or GNOME.
All icons in on KDE kicker no longer smoth edged - i.e. openoffice icons now jagged round the edges. Open office locks up X completely when displaying all fonts in font picker. Killing openoffice from terminal sessions restores X Tried creating new user and logging in as them. Doesn't fix problem - => not local user settings. (BTW I rebooted before filing inital report just to check). chkfontpath reports: $ chkfontpath Current directories in font path: 1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled 2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled 3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled 4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc 5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo 7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic 8: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF 9: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 10: /usr/lib/openoffice/share/fonts/truetype
Created attachment 96086 [details] Snapshot of OpenOffice font selector showing corrupted font list Open office Font selector is corrupted. If I scroll further down OpenOffice locks X completely until I kill openoffice from a console Note - these fonts do not appear in KDE font selector at all - in fact non of the AA fonts appear
Ok - found bug 109351 which is against Fedora Core 1 I also use a 'xinerama' setup but with twi graphics cards. Downgrading to XFree86-libs-4.3.0-2 (i.e. RH9 original) appears to fix the problem, although OpenOffice is still unstable W.r.t. to fonts when browsing the help and opening certain MSFT.doc documents - lockup is the same as when just display the fonts caused the problem - I suspect the still a fault - but I can't track it down. There is definitely a problem with XFree86-libs-4.3.0-2.90.43.i386.rpm as it breaks all qt edge smoothing (such as icons on kicker) and anti-aliasing.
I am using the nvidia drivers on this machines so I can get xinerama support however I don't think that is the problem see bug 109351 comment #8 From Scott Phipps - it happens on the ATI radeon 7500's with xinerama enabled as well so it looks more like an X-Libs/xinerama/qt related bug. Just tested on my old desktop with RH9 and stock ATI drivers and new X + xinerama. Anti-aliased fonts break.
Don't think this is Xft related (and Xft is part of the XFree86 packages currently anyways.)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 109351 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.