Re: [Dri-users] DVI-D vid card recommendation?

[John M. G. <joh...@ya...>]

--- Alex Deucher <ale...@gm...> wrote:

> [snip]
> > 
> > Rebooted and everything was great. The only problem is, I think
> > the driver is using subpixel something-or-other (the black letters
> > on white backgroud seem to have the slightest rainbows around the
> > edges, which I don't like).
> > 
> > Is this a DRI thing, or a freetype2 thing?
> > 
> > If anyone knows how to shut off this sub-pixel font rendering thingy,
> > please let me know.
> 
> 
> check the radeon man page, you can adjust the render options a bit.

Hmm... didn't see anything about "subpixel" or "sub-pixel" in
there.
 
> Also take alook at the fontconfig tool. you can choose from several
> subpixel methods.
> 
> Alex

Sweet! That was it. Thanks. :) Text looks much better now without
those multi-color artifacts. All I had to run was:

dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

and shut off subpixel rendering from there. It was also informative
for me to read /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/README.Debian

---J


		
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