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JohnKapri

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Registered: 2014-01-26

Posts: 6

fbterm font rendering issues

Hello all,
I'm using a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro, a 13,3" Laptop with a ridicolous resolution of 3200x1800, resulting in 276 dpi.
Since I want to shift my workspace to console-only action, I chose fbterm as an alternative to the kernel console (fontconfig support and nice high resolution handling) which worked great for some time now.
Unfortunately for a few weeks now, fonts are rendering incorrectly with artifacts around the letters. I reinstalled the system just a few days ago due to full disk encryption and now I want to tackle this annoyance.
What I've tried:
  - disabled fontconfig font hinting and anti-aliasing
  - set fontconfigs DPI to 276
  - tried different fonts in fbterm
  - tried different font sizes in fbterm
  - compiled fbterm from https://github.com/izmntuk/fbterm
All with no success.
The system currently consists of base, base-devel, wifi stuff, fbterm, libx86, fontconfig, tmux and vim basically. No X11 whatsoever.

I'd appreciate your help!
John

[urbi@orbi ~]$ lsmod | grep video
uvcvideo               86016  0
videobuf2_vmalloc      16384  1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops       16384  1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_v4l2         20480  1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_core         36864  2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_v4l2
videodev              151552  3 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core,videobuf2_v4l2
media                  32768  2 uvcvideo,videodev
video                  36864  3 int3406_thermal,i915,ideapad_laptop
usbcore               208896  7 uvcvideo,usbhid,ehci_hcd,xhci_pci,btusb,xhci_hcd,ehci_pci
[urbi@orbi ~]$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)

kaegell

Member

Registered: 2015-08-24

Posts: 5

Re: fbterm font rendering issues

I'm actually bumping against the same issue here, so I'd be glad to discuss it.
Did you manage to solve this problem in the meantime?