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Patrick Useldinger wrote:
> Hi all,
> a newbie question: I have just installed X11 (Xfree86 4.3), KDE (3.2.2) 
> and Firebird (0.8), and surfing works very well. Compared to my Windows 
> machine however, I think that the fonts look less appealing to what I am 
> used to.
> So I need a pointer - is this due to
> 1) the video driver? the card is an ATI Radeon 7500, and I configured 
> the driver 'radeon' which should be correct.
> 2) the X11 fonts? which one 'look best'?
> 3) KDE - how can I make it to use the nicer fonts?
> 4) Firebird?
> Regards,

You may need to setup fonts to be anti-alised on your XFree86 
configuration, below is a small how to. If you still have ugly fonts, 
get back to us and we'll se what's wrong.

http://www.huckstep.uklinux.net/mle/fonts.html