Bug 60981 - Anti-Aliasing doesn't work in KDE 2.2.1
Summary: Anti-Aliasing doesn't work in KDE 2.2.1
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: pensacola
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-03-11 09:11 UTC by Peter H.S.
Modified: 2007-03-27 03:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-03-11 09:15:55 UTC
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Description Peter H.S. 2002-03-11 09:11:55 UTC
Description of Problem:
Anti-Aliasing doesn't work in KDE 2.2.1.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
XFree86*-4.1.0-15

How Reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start kcontrol.
2. Select: "Look & Feel", -> "Fonts"
3. Select the box: "Use Anti-Aliasing for fonts and icons"
4. Restart KDE

Actual Results:
Anti-Aliasing doesn't work.
Also, the "Fixed with" font always defaults to the rather annoying "Arioso" font,
 as long as "Use Anti-Aliasing for fonts and icons" is selected. (at first, one is allowed to choose
a "Fixed with" font, but when returning to the font selection menu, or when using a KDE
application showing a fixed with font, the system defaults to the Arioso font.


Expected Results:
A-A fonts should work in KDE.
The A-A fixed with font should be the one, one chooses, not the random first one on
the fontlist (Arioso)

Additional Information:
It looks like, that this is a XFree 4.1 problem in XFree86-libs-4.1.0-15.
See "Kernel Cousin KDE #34 For 1 Mar ( 7. XFree86 Render Extension Loading Bug Found)
Also, http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=101456495731750&w=2
The problem is fixed in XFree 4.2. (can we have that version, pretty please?)
There seem to exist patch to QT (se maillist above), that works as a workaround.


My system:
White-box pc (Celeron, BX chipset)
Graphic adapter: Ati Rage IIC (ATI Mach64 GZ rev 122)

The "Render" modules seems to load allright:
From  "/var/log/XFree86.0.log"
"...
(II) Module ABI versions:
        XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1
        XFree86 Video Driver: 0.4
        XFree86 XInput driver : 0.2
        XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1
        XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.2
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
(II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
        compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0
        Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
        ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.2
..."

Relevant Packages installed:
XFree86-xfs-4.1.0-15
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.1.0-15
XFree86-twm-4.1.0-15
XFree86-4.1.0-15
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.1.0-15
XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.1.0-15
XFree86-tools-4.1.0-15
XFree86-devel-4.1.0-15
XFree86-libs-4.1.0-15
XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.1.0-15
XFree86-xdm-4.1.0-15

KDE* 2.2.2-1
qt-2.3.1-5

freetype-2.0.3-7
freetype-devel-2.0.3-7
ttfm-0.9.1-8
ttfonts-1.0-4

Comment 1 Peter H.S. 2002-03-11 09:15:51 UTC
Whoops, "Kernel Cousin KDE" lives on: http://kt.zork.net/
eg.: http://kt.zork.net/kde/latest.html#7


Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2002-03-11 09:28:24 UTC
I am using 4.1.0-15 with KDE with AA fonts right now to type this.
The X render extension is working just fine.  Note that RENDER does not
work with all video hardware currently.

The Arioso default font thing is covered in other bug reports already.


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