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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:46:34PM -0500, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> 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.
>=20
> 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. =20

It's easy to measure an inordinate CPU increase on pretty much
anything - e.g. run an xterm with anti-aliased fonts and stream output
to it, and watch the CPU use skyrocket.

> > It's too blurry to read clearly on my 14" monitor (Windows is fine).
>=20
> 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.

Yes.

> But perhaps windows doesn't anti-alias
> them.

I can see the difference between 'smoothed' and not.

> You can disable antialiasing in fonts.conf or $HOME/.fonts.conf
> for, say, fonts below 12pt with something like

Yes, that's what I did.

Kris

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