Hi, I am really curious about the solution to the following problem: I have SuSE linux 9.0 and I am using KDE 3.3.2 and truetype fonts with the help of the freetype library 6.3.3. The font rendering was brilliant. Yesterday I upgraded the libxml2 from 2.5.10 (that came with SuSE 9.0) to 2.6.24. The reason was, that xmllint didn't process the xi:include properly with the old version. Unfortunately, this upgrade had a serious impact on the font rendering. In fact, the characters where no longer displayed so sharp as before. After I got back to the old version of libxml2, the rendering was as brillliant as before. What happend here? How can I upgrade libxml2 without getting this adverse effect on font rendering? How I proceeded exactely -- if that matters: (1) I built libxml2 with the standard proceedure: ./configure --prefix=/usr/ --mandir=/usr/share/man/ make (2) I uninstalled the old libxml2 with YaST (ignoring the messages about unresolved dependencies) (3) I installed the new version with make install -------- To go back to the old version: (4) I ran make uninstall (5) I installed the old libxml2 with YaST. Thanks for any help Andreas.