[gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5

[gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5

[Konstantinos Agouros]

Hi,

I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse. 
Fonts are totally garbled. It looks like they were written with chalk
and then somebody wiped over them. A redraw fixes is sometimes but
then it gets garbled again. I am using nvidia-drivers 96.XX for legacy
reasons.

Anybody got a clue how to fix this? Do I need to change something in
xorg.conf?

Regards,

Konstantin
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Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5

[Gregory Shearman]

In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse. 
> Fonts are totally garbled. It looks like they were written with chalk
> and then somebody wiped over them. A redraw fixes is sometimes but
> then it gets garbled again. I am using nvidia-drivers 96.XX for legacy
> reasons.

One of my machines runs a GeForce4 card and uses the legacy 96.XX
drivers.

> Anybody got a clue how to fix this? Do I need to change something in
> xorg.conf?

I had the same problems with font smudging in *all* programs and on the
kde desktop. It was almost impossible to even read the start menu.

I solved the problem by adding nvidia-drivers
(x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86) to /etc/portage/package.keywords. The
latest 96.XX driver was installed which was 96.43.11

You do need:

>=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.00.00

in /etc/portage/package.mask so that the latest (~x86) 96.XX driver will be 
installed.

I'm not sure if it will work for you, but maybe it's work a try.

-- 
Regards,

Gregory.
Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5

[Konstantinos Agouros]

In <20090415113152.GA11543@pacific.net.au> zekeyg@gmail.com (Gregory Shearman) writes:

>In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse. 
>> Fonts are totally garbled. It looks like they were written with chalk
>> and then somebody wiped over them. A redraw fixes is sometimes but
>> then it gets garbled again. I am using nvidia-drivers 96.XX for legacy
>> reasons.

>One of my machines runs a GeForce4 card and uses the legacy 96.XX
>drivers.

>> Anybody got a clue how to fix this? Do I need to change something in
>> xorg.conf?

>I had the same problems with font smudging in *all* programs and on the
>kde desktop. It was almost impossible to even read the start menu.

>I solved the problem by adding nvidia-drivers
>(x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86) to /etc/portage/package.keywords. The
>latest 96.XX driver was installed which was 96.43.11

>You do need:

>>=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.00.00

>in /etc/portage/package.mask so that the latest (~x86) 96.XX driver will be 
>installed.

>I'm not sure if it will work for you, but maybe it's work a try.
Thanks for the tip. Do I need to rebuild anything but nvidia-drivers?

Thanks,

Konstantin

>-- 
>Regards,

>Gregory.
>Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power

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Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5

[Paul Hartman]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Konstantinos Agouros <elwood@agouros.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse.
> Fonts are totally garbled. It looks like they were written with chalk
> and then somebody wiped over them. A redraw fixes is sometimes but
> then it gets garbled again. I am using nvidia-drivers 96.XX for legacy
> reasons.

Check this list's archives from a couple weeks ago for a thread called
"Ugly fonts on some seb sites" (sic), there were a couple of hints
posted by Nikos Chantziaras that really made my fonts look a lot
better in Firefox and friends. Maybe it will help you, too.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5

[Gregory Shearman]

In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> In <20090415113152.GA11543@pacific.net.au> zekeyg@gmail.com (Gregory Shearman) writes:
>
>>I solved the problem by adding nvidia-drivers
>>(x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86) to /etc/portage/package.keywords. The
>>latest 96.XX driver was installed which was 96.43.11
>
>>You do need:
>
>>>=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.00.00
>
>>in /etc/portage/package.mask so that the latest (~x86) 96.XX driver will be 
>>installed.
>
>>I'm not sure if it will work for you, but maybe it's work a try.
> Thanks for the tip. Do I need to rebuild anything but nvidia-drivers?

No, I just added the nvidia drivers line to
/etc/portage/package.keywords and emerged the nvidia-drivers. I hope it
works for you.

-- 
Regards,

Gregory.
Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5

[Konstantinos Agouros]

In <58965d8a0904151141u394849ckc7b241dddf686bc9@mail.gmail.com> paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com (Paul Hartman) writes:

>On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Konstantinos Agouros <elwood@agouros.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse.
>> Fonts are totally garbled. It looks like they were written with chalk
>> and then somebody wiped over them. A redraw fixes is sometimes but
>> then it gets garbled again. I am using nvidia-drivers 96.XX for legacy
>> reasons.

>Check this list's archives from a couple weeks ago for a thread called
>"Ugly fonts on some seb sites" (sic), there were a couple of hints
>posted by Nikos Chantziaras that really made my fonts look a lot
>better in Firefox and friends. Maybe it will help you, too.
The upgrade to the 96.XX version from ~x86 resolved it.

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Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5

[Konstantinos Agouros]

In <20090416054846.GA9690@pacific.net.au> zekeyg@gmail.com (Gregory Shearman) writes:

>In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>> In <20090415113152.GA11543@pacific.net.au> zekeyg@gmail.com (Gregory Shearman) writes:
>>
>>>I solved the problem by adding nvidia-drivers
>>>(x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86) to /etc/portage/package.keywords. The
>>>latest 96.XX driver was installed which was 96.43.11
>>
>>>You do need:
>>
>>>>=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.00.00
>>
>>>in /etc/portage/package.mask so that the latest (~x86) 96.XX driver will be 
>>>installed.
>>
>>>I'm not sure if it will work for you, but maybe it's work a try.
>> Thanks for the tip. Do I need to rebuild anything but nvidia-drivers?

>No, I just added the nvidia drivers line to
>/etc/portage/package.keywords and emerged the nvidia-drivers. I hope it
>works for you.
Yup it did. A great many thanks!
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Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5

[Dale]

Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
>
> Yup it did. A great many thanks!
>   

Somewhat on topic.  How does one know what version of nvidia-drivers to
use for their card?  I went to the nvidia site and my card is not listed
anywhere.  I have a FX-5200 with 128Mbs of ram I think.  I'm just
curious cause I have trouble when I try to upgrade the drivers.  I'm
currently using nvidia-drivers-173.14.09.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Somewhat on topic.  How does one know what version of nvidia-drivers to
> use for their card?  I went to the nvidia site and my card is not listed
> anywhere.  I have a FX-5200 with 128Mbs of ram I think.  I'm just
> curious cause I have trouble when I try to upgrade the drivers.  I'm
> currently using nvidia-drivers-173.14.09.

The readme file in the driver archive (and on the unix download page
at ndivia's site) contains the list of supported GPUs and which driver
can operate them. The FX-5200 is listed as being supported by the
legacy driver 173.14.xx series.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5

[Dale]

Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Somewhat on topic.  How does one know what version of nvidia-drivers to
>> use for their card?  I went to the nvidia site and my card is not listed
>> anywhere.  I have a FX-5200 with 128Mbs of ram I think.  I'm just
>> curious cause I have trouble when I try to upgrade the drivers.  I'm
>> currently using nvidia-drivers-173.14.09.
>>     
>
> The readme file in the driver archive (and on the unix download page
> at ndivia's site) contains the list of supported GPUs and which driver
> can operate them. The FX-5200 is listed as being supported by the
> legacy driver 173.14.xx series.
>
>
>   

OK.  I looked on the site but couldn't find anything even close to my
FX-5200.  Maybe I was in the wrong place or something.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Somewhat on topic.  How does one know what version of nvidia-drivers to
>>> use for their card?  I went to the nvidia site and my card is not listed
>>> anywhere.  I have a FX-5200 with 128Mbs of ram I think.  I'm just
>>> curious cause I have trouble when I try to upgrade the drivers.  I'm
>>> currently using nvidia-drivers-173.14.09.
>>>
>>
>> The readme file in the driver archive (and on the unix download page
>> at ndivia's site) contains the list of supported GPUs and which driver
>> can operate them. The FX-5200 is listed as being supported by the
>> legacy driver 173.14.xx series.
>>
>>
>>
>
> OK.  I looked on the site but couldn't find anything even close to my
> FX-5200.  Maybe I was in the wrong place or something.

Here's the list section of the README file on the web:

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/180.44/README/appendix-a.html

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5

[Dale]

Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> OK.  I looked on the site but couldn't find anything even close to my
>> FX-5200.  Maybe I was in the wrong place or something.
>>     
>
> Here's the list section of the README file on the web:
>
> http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/180.44/README/appendix-a.html
>
>
>   

I never saw that in my search.  You must use a improved search tool than
I have.  LOL

Thanks.  I got it bookmarked now.

Dale

:-)  :-)