Bug 54447 – Lost anti-aliased when xserver upgraded

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Scott Jacobsen 2004-06-19 13:15:41 UTC]

I emerged kde last night. It appears the emerge also updated my xserver to 4.3.0-r5. I no longer have anti-aliased fonts. I read a bunch of faqs and dinked about with various X-configuration files, but nothing worked.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge kde
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
No more anti-aliased fonts.

Expected Results:  
Installed kde AND still have anti-aliased fonts.

Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0,
2.4.25-gentoo-r4)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.25-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/tomcat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups encode esd fam foomaticdb gdbm
gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imap imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad
maildir mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda
pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd
truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Scott Jacobsen 2004-06-19 13:56:38 UTC]

*** Bug 54451 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 Scott Jacobsen 2004-06-20 12:23:19 UTC]

Unmerged xfree-4.3.0-r5, fontconfig-2.2.2, and freetype-2.1.5-r1. Then emerge xfree86. Still don't have anti-aliased fonts. In the kde font control panel if I check "Use anti-aliasing for fonts" and then click OK, and then open that control panel again "Use anti-aliasing for fonts" has become unchecked.

[Comment 3 Scott Jacobsen 2004-06-20 14:27:08 UTC]

Created attachment 33677 [details]
font screen shot

It looks like fonts become anti-aliased when I blow them up to a certain size.
Perhaps this is what changed with the latest xserver. I'm not sure where this
would be configured. I've attached a .png showing the same font at two
different sizes. Only the larger one is anti-aliased.

But this doesn't explain why I can't check "Use anti-aliasing for fonts" in the
KDE control panel.

[Comment 4 Scott Jacobsen 2004-09-04 09:55:11 UTC]

Oh. Finally figured out why my settings don't stick. For some reason the settings on my .qt dir were drw--rw-- rather than drwx----. I don't know ht that happened. Now when I click "use anti-aliased fonts" it stays clicked.