Am I the only person having problems with anti-aliasing? I have the latest rawhide installed (XFree86-4.0.2-12.1, KDE-2.1-7, qt-2.3.0). When I turn antialiasing on KDE core dumps. Furthermore, I tested this with running xinit and starting kde with startkde from a xterm window (no manager). If I set QT_XFT=true startkde core dumps...if QT_XFT=false it works. I followed all the instructions to make sure AA is available. RENDER extension is loaded and shows with xdpyinfo. Graphics cards are: 1. r128 on DELL Inspiron 4000 2. GeForce 256 (32MB) on a DELL Dimension XPS T750r (nv driver) Again, I am not sure whether this is KDE or X problem. If I switch to NVIDIA's latest drivers that support rendering same problem happens. By the way, I have seen some people talk about xterm -fa arial. What is the -fa option. What I know is -fn. BUT xterm -fa arial core dumps on both of my computers!!
This is an XFree86 problem that has been (hopefully) solved in the latest build available at: ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Make sure you pick up the Mesa package while you are there as it is also required. Also, I should note that Red Hat does not support configurations that are using external drivers such as those available from Nvidia and Matrox. The latest open source Nvidia driver included with XFree86 fixes many problems and may suit your needs. It is included in the above release.
Thanks but I can never access ftp://people.redhat.com/ accounts. Netscape always sais there is a network problem. When I tried to access it manually I can log in but as soon as I issue a command like ls it sais passive use is disabled, or something like that. One thing with KDE (rawhide), kbuildsycoca is not producing any output. My ksycoca's were dated to Feb.26. If this file is not updated kde panel and others start crashing intermittently. The AA seems to be very sensitive to fonts. I had a large set of Type1 and TrueType fonts. I cannot pin point exactly where the problem is but Type1 seems to be more of the problem. When I moved most of my Type1 fonts to another directory things stopped core dumping (xterm, kde). I still have some problems but hopefully they will be fixed with the new rpms and new ksycoca. Thanks
The reason you cannot access people.redhat.com via ftp is because you are behind either an ip filter or proxy firewall that is not allowing you outside properly. This is a problem you will have to work out with your sysadmin.. sorry.. The new stuff should work for you if you can find a way to get past your firewall.
Finally got 4.0.3-1 and Mesa....this problem seems to be resolved. Thanks