Re: [gentoo-user] Anti-aliasing

[Jerry McBride]

On Wednesday 30 January 2008 12:25:46 pm Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote:
> Jerry McBride pisze:
> > On Wednesday 30 January 2008 10:50:02 am econti wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> may be this is a stupid question but I am not able to set the
> >> anti-aliasing on firefox and thunderbird.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> emilio
> >
> > You have a good trail to follow for your problem in the other messages...
> >
> >
> > For my problem, with regards to anti-aliasing... I have one computer
> > running kde that I can't turn on "sub-pixel hinting". The option is under
> > the Fonts tab in control settings, but it's greyed out... I'm not able to
> > tell why...
> >
> > Any hints? (pun intended)
>
> To use anti-aliasing You must have card with driver that allows to use
> RGBA colorspace in hardware mode. Currently new cards using that
> colorspace, but some older use only YUV* color spaces. Some cards on PCI
> slot with 2 MB memory and first cards on AGP slot using only YUV* color
> spaces. If you have such card, you can only emulate subpixel hinting,
> but not all drivers allowing to do this. If you can't use subpixel
> hinting, that will be problem of the driver or older card. Try to verify
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf for driver - is it realy driver for Your card, or
> just replace G.C. with some newer...
>
> Mateusz M.

Thanks for the post. Yes, this is a recent pcix nvidia and nvidia's own 
drivers...

Thank you for the help.






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