I 've got an nividia card, an athlon and mozilla
doesn't crash with www.boston.com. But i use previous
version of nvidia drivers because last is so unstable
on my system.


--- Pedro Soria-Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> Hello,  I am using a MDK 9.0 system that I have been
> updating with
> cooker RPMs since I installed 9.0.  I use the i586
> rpms, and the
> machine is an Athlon 1.4GHz.
> The language I use all throughout the system is
> English.
> 
> Currently it has:
>       XFree86-4.3-0.20030210.1mdk  (and related XFree
> packages)
>       mozilla-1.3-0.beta.1mdk
>       OpenOffice.org-1.0.2-2mdk
>       freetype-tools-1.3.1-17mdk
>       freetype2-2.1.3-6mdk
>       freetype-1.3.1-17mdk
>       freetype2-devel-2.1.3-6mdk
> and I am using Version 1.0-4191 (latest) of the
> Nvidia drivers for my
> Nvidia card.
> 
> And now for the couple of problems I see:
> 
> ** Mozilla:  It crashes when I enter in
> www.boston.com
>    This did not happen with the previous version
> (1.3-alpha)
> 
> ** OpenOffice:  This is a bit weirder.  If a font is
> relatively
> small as displayed on screen, the font is displayed
> as a bunch of
> pixels, stretched to the right.  It is unreadable.
> If I zoom in a little bit until the text is
> displayed a little bigger,
> then I can see the text fine.  It is a problem with
> displaying small
> fonts.
>       With a quick test I found out that the font "Zapf
> Chancery"
> does not show this problem.  When all other fonts
> are garbled, this one
> stays fine.
>       All the other fonts are TTF fonts that I installed
> on my system prior
> to upgrading XFree to XFree86-4.3-0.20030210.   All
> fonts were
> displayed properly in OpenOffice (at all sizes) up
> to XFree86-4.2.99.5 
> or so.
>       I started seeing this problem when I upgraded to a
> new XFree86
> and possibly OpenOffice 1.0.2
> 
>       But I suspect it may have to do with the new,
> not-yet-final
> XFree86 in combination with the Nvidia card.  
> Nvidia does not have new
> drivers since December 2002, so I am guessing that
> those drivers were
> intended for XFree 4.2.x ...
> 
>       But I thought I would report these two problems to
> the list.  And if
> someone knows a solution to either problem... I'd
> like to know, too.
> 
>       Thanks,
> 
> --
> Pedro.
>  
> 
> 
>  

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