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
Whoops, "Kernel Cousin KDE" lives on: http://kt.zork.net/ eg.: http://kt.zork.net/kde/latest.html#7
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.