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On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:06:58 -0700, Doug Silver <dsilver@urchin.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 16 July 2003 05:52 pm, you wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:32:13 -0700, Doug Silver <dsilver@urchin.com> 
>> wrote:
>> > (sorry if this should be directed to -questions, but I'm using the 
>> nvidia
>> > port and there have been several recent posts about it)
>> >
>> > I just replaced my video card with a RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro
>> > (from dmesg).  The nvidia port installed fine, X starts up, but the 
>> text
>> > is frustratingly blurry.
>>
>> Do you have the LCD monitor? It might be reason, because of AA (Anti-
>> Aliased) fonts. You can try to enable the sub-pixel rendering in the
>> /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/local.conf to see if it helps. The sub-pixel is 
>> good
>> for the LCD monitor.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
>>
>
> No, it's not an LCD monitor -- it's a ViewSonic monitor ~17".  BTW, I 
> didn't find any local.conf file in either /etc/X11/fonts or 
> /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts.  There was a fonts.conf in the latter folder.

The fonts.conf is fine and near same as with local.conf. I think, the 
local.conf will be there if you install x11-fonts/bitstream-vera.. However, 
here's how to enable the sub-pixel rending add some lines following:

<match target="font">
    <edit name="rgba" mode="assign">
        <const>rgb</const>
    </edit>
</match>

But, I don't know if it will help for the CRT monitor.. You can try to 
check link http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/fonts2.html#4 for disable AA 
or whatever.. I don't know if it's really Xft/Fontconfig issue, your video 
card or Nvidia driver, it's all I can help and someone might have the 
better answer than mine.

Cheers,
Mezz


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