Okay, Ken, I found that anti-aliasing does help our
problem.
Bring up the K Configuration Panel and select Look and
Feel. Then select Style. Towards the middle is a
check box to enable anti-aliasing. If you do that,
after restarting X, you will have anti-aliasing.
Konqueror then displays the fonts quite clearly
(albeit a bit small).
There is also another checkbox to make changes affect
non-KDE applications, but this did not help my
Netscape.
I changed my font size and one style (under Look and
Feel). This improved the fonts of KDE. However,
Konqueror ignored my changes (even in the Appearance
tab of Konqueror's Settings menu). While I had nice
anti-aliasing, the fonts were a bit small for my tired
eyes.
I believe you will need the nvidia detonator drivers
installed. You can get them here:
http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html
Grab the .src.rpm's (at the bottom of the page) and
rebuild them:
rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel*src.rpm
rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_GLX*src.rpm
This will create the binaries in a subdirectory
(depending on the architecture of your machine - K6,
i386, i486, i586, i686, noarch) at:
/usr/src/RPM/RPMS/
Be SURE to read the README at the same nvidia link.
It is IMPORTANT (I know the fonts are bad, but do what
you can).
This will not completely fix the problem (because
Netscape is still messed up), but it will enable your
anti-aliasing making KDE generally much nicer and it
will be a huge improvement for Konqueror.
Also, in case anyone else is interested, I realized my
mistake I mentioned in my old message (below) about
Aurora. The "graphical boot up" I mentioned is indeed
Aurora after all. If anyone misses the Aurora of 7.2,
you can choose between it and other styles under the
Boot section of the Mandrake Control Center. There
are four styles of Aurora to choose from.
I hope this helps, Ken. If you have any troubles with
the nvidia drivers, let me know and I will try to
help. They are by far superior drivers to the "nv"
driver you are likely using now.
--- "Kenneth Lierman Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> > The only real issue that I had was that (believe
> it or
> > not) when looking at certain webpages using
> certain
> > fonts, those fonts would be messed up. Even more
> > surprising is that I tried this with Konqueror and
> > Netscape 4.77 and while the problem exists in both
> > environments, it is far worse in Konqueror. With
> > Konqueror, the fonts were almost unreadable
> (remember
> > this was only certain fonts on certain webpages).
> >
>
> I have the EXACT same problem. It occurs in several
> web browsers, as well
> as star office. The fonts sorta look like a ransom
> letter; the bottoms
> aren't flat, and the verticle lines ofen have parts
> that are "fat".
>
> > An example of a page that made fonts display
> poorly
> > for me is the following:
> >
>
http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html
> >
> > If anyone can check that page and report whether
> their
> > fonts are messed up too, that would be greatly
> > appreciated. Specifically, the narrative at the
> top
> > was very bad.
> >
>
> i'll check it out when i get home.
>
> > I did edit /etc/X11/fs/config to list the 100dpi
> fonts
> > first (making them the default as discussed on
> > mandrakeuser.org). In 7.2 this always made a
> > significant improvement for me. However, this
> seemed
> > to make no difference for me with 8.0.
> >
>
> me too.
>
> > Because the downloaded version of Mandrake 8.0
> does
> > not include the nvidia detonator drivers, the
> > installation must install using the "nv" driver.
> I
> > believe that "nv" does NOT support anti-aliasing
> and
> > so I thought that might be my problem. I wondered
> if
> > maybe when 8.0 was installing if it somehow turned
> off
> > anti-aliasing because it had to use the "nv"
> driver.
> > I installed the NVidia detonator driver which does
> > support anti-aliasing, but if I need to somehow
> enable
> > anti-aliasing, I don't know how. Can anyone help
> me
> > with this problem? Is there a way I can test my
> > anti-aliasing to verify for certain if it is
> enabled?
> > If it is indeed disabled, how do I enable it?
> >
>
> i am also running a nvidia card (tnt2).... wonder if
> that's related?
>
> please post any solutions you find.... i haven't
> been able to figure
> anything out....
>
> Ken
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