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. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
