Fonts bleeding problem with nvidia, redhat 9 and dell I8200

[wizardmax]

I am having a strange problem. After installing the latest nVidia drivers on my RH9 laptop my fonts became colorful. What I mean is that they seem out of focus, like a rainbow (sort of) and are not black. Resembles something like a CRT monitor with an alignment problem, but this is a laptop screen on a dell inspirion 8200 with a gForce 440 Go. This does not happen for all fonts ether (or maybe they are just way smaller on the 1400x1024 screen and I cant see it.) I see this on all relatively large fonts such as kde start panel, kde menus and windows and in mozilla. It looks fine in a console... Anyone know what is going on and how to fix it??? It works fine with XFree nv drivers.

I run at 1400x1024, and don't have digital vibrance enabled. I have set the driver to mobile mode 1 for dell laptops and option NvAGP=3.

Thanks
Max

[tc0]

I have the same problem - has anyone else experienced this? Any solutions?

[wizardmax]

I haven't been able to find a solution, but I am starting to think its the laptop/anti-aliasing combination. I enabled cleartype under WinXP and getting similar results (a lot less noticeable through).

[Rambone]

are you using KDE?

[wizardmax]

Yes, KDE with anti-aliasing. But from what I remember, Gnome was having the same problem. (dont quote me on that)

[tc0]

I'm not sure whether it is happening in Gnome, I'll go back and check. Definitely in KDE though...

[Rambone]

I had that happening to me when I was on KDE. I turned off font anti-aliasing and it became much less noticeable. Also, the fonts that come bundled with RH and KDE can look wierd on some monitors. Install the adobe fonts and it should clear it up a bit.

[tc0]

Thank you!

[wizardmax]

How much of it did you manage to get rid of?

[Rambone]

it's not an issue on my box anymore because of it.

[wizardmax]

Was it the fonts or the way KDE does anti-aliasing?

[Rambone]

well it was both...

The fonts looked terrible, and KDE's antialiasing feature made it that much worse.

[wizardmax]

I installed Vera fonts, and with unti-aliasing it is tolorable, but I will try turning anti-aliasing off. Ugly fonts again. Oh well.

Can you tell me which adobe fonts you are talking about and which fonts you are using for KDE

[Rambone]

I don't use KDE... too big and bulky, and it automates too many things.

I'm using a windowmanager called pekwm (www.pekwm.org) and my default X font is adobe-helvetica-medium.

I'll include a screenshot. keep in mind that the menu font is not the adobe font, it's been themed and is using some bitstream font.

http://www.rit.edu/~rcz9769/pics/screen1.jpg

[wizardmax]

Thanks, will try.

[dragon]

I had this same problem. I think (for me) it's because of the sub-pixel smoothing option. The default is to use horizontal RGB pixels. When I changed it to VRGB (vertical arrangement) the font bleeding stopped.

To set that option (in gnome), go to start -> preferences -> font, enable subpixel smoothing if it's not, click the 'details' button, and choose 'VRGB' in the pixel arrangement section. Also, setting Hinting to full is nice. :)

[wizardmax]

Yes, that is what I do under KDE also, I have it set to vBRG so it is barely noticeable with the new fonts. I turned anti-aliasing off, but could not stand the ugliness, so I'll keep looking for another solution.

[lonblu]

hi I'm using kde 3.3 with nvidia 6106 with a flat 19"LCD panel and I have the same problem specially on qt application and I don't want to turn off antialiasing in KDE.
If I use the nv driver the fonts are OK...
but with nvidia it's orrible.... my eyes can't look at it
anyway ...not all of the fonts are so bad.