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sven

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Registered: 2005-02-01

Posts: 311

[SOLVED] Nvidia 177.80 problem - fonts appear like being out of focus

The newest official nvidia driver has a problem - fonts seem to be like out of focus, a bit blurred so that it will make me want to sratch my eyes after a while. Before the update fonts were crisp and clear. The blurriness effect is especially annoying at console and browser windows.

I haven't touched modeline setting, could something be tweaked there?

EDIT: at least nvidia-169.12-4 - package did not have this problem.

Last edited by sven (2008-11-01 19:12:43)

sven

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Registered: 2005-02-01

Posts: 311

Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia 177.80 problem - fonts appear like being out of focus

Crisp and clear image again
I had to downgraded some core packages and got these:

binutils-2.18-8-i686.pkg.tar.gz 
gcc-libs-4.3.1-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz 
gcc-4.2.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz     
glibc-2.8-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz       
kernel26-2.6.25.11-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz       
nvidia-169.12-4-i686.pkg.tar.tar
glibc-2.8-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz     
nvidia-utils-169.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.tar
gcc-gcj-4.2.1-4.pkg.tar.gz       
kernel-headers-2.6.25.8-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

Got the packages from http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/sun … archlinux/

Last edited by sven (2008-11-01 19:13:38)

shazeal

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2007-06-05

Posts: 341

Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia 177.80 problem - fonts appear like being out of focus

Sounds like the DPI settings changed somehow, do you specify the DPI anywhere in your Xorg setup? I had this issue with an older set of drivers where the Nvidia driver auto detected my DPI as 95x96 I had to force it to 96x96 and all was fine. Pasted the section in xorg.conf I had to change.

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS" "True"
    DisplaySize 338 270
    Option "DPI"   "96 x 96"
EndSection

sven

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Registered: 2005-02-01

Posts: 311

Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia 177.80 problem - fonts appear like being out of focus

Thanks for the tip!
I'll try if it would help.

dhave

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Registered: 2005-05-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia 177.80 problem - fonts appear like being out of focus

I've kept current with the nvidia drivers for the past year or so, and I haven't noticed a degradation of fonts. I've kept the same DPI setting throughout, though.

I would be surprised if you'd have to revert to the older drivers for this reason. It's especially a drag if, in reverting to the older nvidia drivers, you have to revert to older versions of all those other packages.

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