Font Scaling Question

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thu December 4 2003 02:49 pm, Robert E. Raymond wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have 2 computers, both Athlon XP, both Radeon, both 17" Trinitron
> monitors (Sony G200 and Dell D1025TM), with identical X Configs except
> that one is set for a higher refresh rate, sync, etc.- the main computer
> is Radeon 8500 with 1600x1200 at 75hz, the 2nd is Radeon LE with
> 1600x1200 at 60hz.
>
> And I have virtually identical Gentoo installs on both- the 2nd was set
> up yesterday by copying the contents of the 1st hard disk to it via NFS.
>
> Yet fonts in these basically identical setups are totally different
> size-wise.
>
> The main system has 10-pt. defaults, anti-aliasing enabled.  So those
> settings got copied over as well, but on the 2nd system 10-pt. is almost
> double the size that it is on the 1st system.
>
> Attached is the XF86Config from machine 2.  Any ideas on what I might
> try to get the 2nd machine displaying fonts correctly?

I went through something similar to this a week or two ago.   Suddenly the 
fonts in Kmail went really screwy and I couldn't find out the reason.  Looked 
at a lot of things...  Finally blew away my ~/.kde  directory and started 
over and everything has been fine since.

If I were you, I would:

a) Make up a new userid
b) Login to it
c) See if it runs correctly for fonts.

If so.... the problem lies somewhere in your .kde setup  (since you didn't 
mention what desktop you are running, I am assuming KDE), not in your X 
setup.




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