I have the same problem on a machine I just updated to 7.1. I installed kde 2.1.1 and XFree 4.0.3. I have enabled AA fonts in the control center, they don't show. It may be of some help a warning I get when I start YaST2: Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0.0". Running xdpyinfo doesn't show the RENDER extension. I've a i810 on this machine. [...] Well, what do you know? I went and re-read the README file for the XFree 4.0.3 updates. It turns out that the RENDER extension is supported only in these drivers: Please notice that not all XFree86 4.0.3 drivers already support the XRender extension, so antialiasing support is limited up to now to the following drivers (we did not test them all): - chips (Chips & Technologies) - cirrus (Cirrus Logic) - glint (3Dlabs) - i128 (Number 9 Imagine 128) - mga (Matrox) - neomagic (Neomagic) - nv (Nvidia) - r128 (ATI Rage 128) - radeon (ATI Radeon) - s3virge (S3 ViRGE) - tdfx (3Dfx) - trident (Trident) - tseng (Tseng) - vesa (Vesa compatibles) So, if you don't have one of these, you are out of luck. Rafael