On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Keith Winston wrote: >I'v been running RH8 on my laptop without problems since it came out >with an ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 32MB. > >I just bought the RH9 box yesterday and installed it on another >partition of the same machine. Install went fine, detected the card and > X loads fine. I know the X in RH9 was upgraded to 4.3. > >However, graphically rendered text in every application appears with a >faint red, yellow, or blue shadow or halo around it. This happens in >mozilla, menus, etc., but NOT in a standard xterm where the text appears >normal. > >OK, before anyone suggests it was the odd looking mushrooms growing in >my backyard, I don't think so, besides, that was long time ago. > >I've tried switching color depth from 16-bit to 24-bit and back, same >problem. I've tried different window managers, same problem. I am >getting about 250 extra FPS in glxgears with X4.3 so I don't want to go >back to RH8, but it is hard looking at the Magical Mystery Tour on my >screen all day. > >Does anyone else have an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 with or without this >issue? It's not a video card related issue. You have got subpixel font smoothing enabled. Turn it off. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat
