Hi Lenz, As you can guess from my "SuSE 7.1 is GREAT" posting, AA is now working beautifully. The only slowdown I noticed was when dragging windows around, and I'm hopeful that this will improve when I install SuSE on my Laptop which is substantially more powerful (750 PIII vs. a 450 PII and 16 Meg ATI Rage Mobility video vs. 8 Meg nVidia Riva 128ZX)... we shall see. Thank-you for your help, I would have been stuck otherwise, especially without that SuSEconfig trick, I had forgotten about font.scale files. BTW, I guess I should send this in with my bug and wish list to the feedback department, but I thought I'd mention this idea here too. Why not, in 7.2, make install both qt and qt-experimental in to different locations, and then allow the user to enable AA/Font Smoothing in YaST2. Depending on whether it was enabled/disabled, the qt symlink would point to the correct QT-libs... Thanks again, your instructions worked magnificently. -Tim ----------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm Christian Web Services Since 1996 tbutler@uninetsolutions.com http://www.uninetsolutions.com ============== "Information Powered by Innovation" ============== "AT&T: The pre-paid phone card. Jesus: The pre-paid life card."
-----Original Message----- From: Lenz Grimmer [mailto:grimmer@suse.de] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 9:39 AM To: SuSE Mailing List Subject: RE: [SLE] Anti-Aliasing: How do I do it?
Hi,
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
I can't wait to try it. Hopefully by the time the next SuSE comes out it will be the default. Three brief questions for you:
1.) Were you able to find a RPM of qt-experimental, or did you have to compile the CVS version (I always hate to over write packages with source code)?
As mentioned before, it is on the 7.1 CDs. However, we do not use it as the default yet, since it is (as the name applies) still in the works.
2.) Do you have a noticeable speed decrease?
According to Keith, only a few video chipsets support rendering of AA fonts in hardware (e.g. Matrox). So you might notice a slight slowdown of text output on slow systems, because the X server has to do the rendering in Software.
3.) Did you have to do anything more than you and Lenz advised me on?
I hope not :)
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