[kde-freebsd] FreeBSD-8.0-RC2 problems

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

On Friday 06 November 2009 10:22:12 Masoom Shaikh wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > 2009/11/6 Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh at gmail.com>:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Last Saturday I installed 8.0-RC2 from source by compiling on 7.1
> > > installation. building and installing was smooth as always has been. Then
> > I
> > > pkg_add'ed xorg and KDE4, this was painless too. I am very disappointed
> > with
> > > my experience
> > >
> > > problem # 1
> > > The problem is KDE4 is not able to display anti aliased fonts. I have
> > made
> > > the required changes to make it work, of course, in System Settings ->
> > > Appearance -> Fonts
> > > Hinting -> Full, and there is is one more option, the name i cannot
> > recall
> > > ATM, I have set it to RGB. DPI to 96......this is has worked for all
> > > combination of installs I have used so far, viz KDE3 on FreeBSD-6.x to
> > > KDE4.1.x on FreeBSD-7.x and KDE4.2 on FreeBSD-8.0RC1
> >
> > This shouldn't be KDE-specific. Are you sure there's nothing wrong
> > with your (global or local) fonts.conf?
> >
> yes, I suspect it has something to do with xorg
> i don't know wherer fonts.conf reside, thanks for the hint, i will look if
> its broken
> 
There's an optional ~/.fonts.conf and a global /usr/local/etc/fonts (it may be a different directory in FreeBSD, I'm not using it at the moment) with a fonts.conf and maybe a configuration directory.

You should look for the rules about hinting and antialiasing.