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