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EmyrB

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From: Wales, UK

Registered: 2006-09-04

Posts: 122

Font Rendring after nVidia legacy drivers installed

Hi all,

Last night I installed the nVidia legacy drivers for my card, GeForce FX 5600, using the nvidia-173xx drivers. Now since I have done that my font rendering is pants

I have set my fonts to DejaVu Sans 10, but all the fonts look like I am using the courier fonts, no matter what I set the fonts to it all looks like courier. Is this a known problem with the nVidia driver?

Cheers

EmyrB

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xcession

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From: Udon Thani, Thailand

Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 72

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Re: Font Rendring after nVidia legacy drivers installed

Hello EmyrB,
I'm also using 173.14.12 with my FX5200 and everything work fine...
Can you provide the screen shot?

chaseadam

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Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 2

Re: Font Rendring after nVidia legacy drivers installed

I believe I have a similar problem with the new/beta 96.43.09 drivers.

http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/8694 … ingtt4.png

EmyrB

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From: Wales, UK

Registered: 2006-09-04

Posts: 122

Re: Font Rendring after nVidia legacy drivers installed

Can you provide the screen shot?

[img=http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/8470/screenshot1hv3.th.png]

I hope a picture is worth a thousand words?

As you can see, the Applications, Places and System menu titles all look like courier, but before I installed the nVidia 173xx driver they were render correctly.

Cheers

EmyrB

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EmyrB

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From: Wales, UK

Registered: 2006-09-04

Posts: 122

Re: Font Rendring after nVidia legacy drivers installed

Any ideas with this as it is beginning to bug me now? I have trawled through the tinternet and still no joy

Cheers

EmyrB

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brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Font Rendring after nVidia legacy drivers installed

Run the standard procedure.

misarm

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Registered: 2008-12-02

Posts: 8

Re: Font Rendring after nVidia legacy drivers installed

Hi, I have also same problem with 96.43.09 legacy drivers. I have GeForce2 MX/MX 400 graphic card. Described also in nvidia thread:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122178

fLuXx

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Registered: 2008-09-17

Posts: 8

Re: Font Rendring after nVidia legacy drivers installed

Me 2, I've got a geforce 4 mx 460. the font rendering problem, and no luck so far.

fLuXx

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Registered: 2008-09-17

Posts: 8

Re: Font Rendring after nVidia legacy drivers installed

Ok, so in the thread on nvidia forum says that the bug will be fixed for the next release. Now we wait.
EDIT: Solved the problem by enabling antialiasing and subpixel hinting in control center of kdemod3! It all works, finally.

Last edited by fLuXx (2008-12-03 01:09:19)