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In <20090415113152.GA11543@×××××××××××.au> zekeyg@×××××.com (Gregory Shearman) writes: |
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>In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse. |
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>> Fonts are totally garbled. It looks like they were written with chalk |
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>> and then somebody wiped over them. A redraw fixes is sometimes but |
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>> then it gets garbled again. I am using nvidia-drivers 96.XX for legacy |
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>> reasons. |
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>One of my machines runs a GeForce4 card and uses the legacy 96.XX |
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>drivers. |
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>> Anybody got a clue how to fix this? Do I need to change something in |
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>> xorg.conf? |
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>I had the same problems with font smudging in *all* programs and on the |
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>kde desktop. It was almost impossible to even read the start menu. |
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>I solved the problem by adding nvidia-drivers |
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>(x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86) to /etc/portage/package.keywords. The |
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>latest 96.XX driver was installed which was 96.43.11 |
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>You do need: |
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>>=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.00.00 |
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>in /etc/portage/package.mask so that the latest (~x86) 96.XX driver will be |
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>installed. |
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>I'm not sure if it will work for you, but maybe it's work a try. |
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Thanks for the tip. Do I need to rebuild anything but nvidia-drivers? |
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Thanks, |
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Konstantin |
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>Regards, |
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>Gregory. |
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>Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power |
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Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elwood@×××××××.de |
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Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185 |
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