In <20090415113152.ga11...@pacific.net.au> zek...@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 -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elw...@agouros.de Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Captain, this ship will not survive the forming of the cosmos." B'Elana Torres
