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Kris Kennaway wrote:
[XFree86 antialiasing]
> It's too slow to use on my sparc64 machine (rendering e.g. large text
> files in mozilla takes up to 60 seconds, which is hardly acceptable).
> An ultra30 is hardly a speed demon thesedays, but it's not that slow.

Must be some strange bug on sparc64, do the XFree86 people know about
it?  I've used it happily on a 400 MHz P-II.  

> It's too blurry to read clearly on my 14" monitor (Windows is fine).

Well much depends on the monitor.  If you claim that the same fonts,
antialiased on both systems, are fine on windows and not on XFree86,
that's definitely a problem.  But perhaps windows doesn't anti-alias
them.  You can disable antialiasing in fonts.conf or $HOME/.fonts.conf
for, say, fonts below 12pt with something like

 <match target="font"> 
     <test name="size" compare="less">
        <int>12</int>
     </test> 
     <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
         <bool>false</bool>
     </edit> 
 </match>

It can also be done by pointing/clicking via KDE's control panel (I
presume GNOME's too).

Rahul