Font Scaling Question

[Robert E. Raymond]

Bruce Marshall wrote:

>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.
>
>
Nope, doesn't change anything.  And it's actually not just in one user's 
KDE, it's also a KDM issue and a problem with GTK apps.

Thanks tho.. :(

Bob Raymond