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Font display problem

Hein Stringfellow
Registered User
Join date: 6 Oct 2006
Posts: 1
10-06-2006 21:30
Some of the text in the client displayed in an unreadable font. If I highlight the text , some areas become readable.
Anyone solved this issue ?

Regards
H
Emma Hickman
Registered User
Join date: 8 Oct 2006
Posts: 1
Same Issue
10-08-2006 05:12
I have the exact same problem, running Kubuntu 6.04 Dapper on a Dell 8400, 3Ghz, ATi X300 Video Card, 512mb RAM. I think its a library issue, not a hardware one, can anyone help?
Merrick Moose
Registered User
Join date: 20 Oct 2005
Posts: 191
10-08-2006 05:56
If you can post what version video driver and X you are running someone may be able to help. For the 7.0+ versions of X you will need the most recent video drivers. Run 'xpdyinfo' and reply with the first five lines, example follows:

name of display: :0.0
version number: 11.0
vendor string: The X.Org Foundation
vendor release number: 70101000
X.Org version: 7.1.1

Then the command 'glxinfo' and reply with the following lines only:

OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 7900 GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.0.2 NVIDIA 87.74

Is font rendering a problem in applications outside of SL at all? There has been some issue with font rendering with updated 7.1.x versions of X on slightly older video drivers on nVidia hardware. I am not sure about ATI yet.
Charis Sonoda
Registered User
Join date: 17 Dec 2006
Posts: 1
12-17-2006 23:48
I am having this problem as well. I have had no font problems outside of SL.
RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]
Running Ubuntu 6.06
Kernel 2.6.15-27-386
Gnome 2.14.3


Here is what those commands returned:

michael@Romulus:~$ sudo xpdyinfo
Password:
sudo: xpdyinfo: command not found
michael@Romulus:~$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x21 24 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x22 24 dc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None