Re: Anti-aliased fonts on MGA and ATI graphics boards

Keith Packard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.render
Message-ID <E17B4HG-0006UC-00@localhost> 
Around 13 o'clock on May 23, "Glenn Johnson" wrote:

> Recently, I have been looking at anti-aliased fonts.  I have noticed
> that the AA fonts look really nice on the ATI system but on the MGA
> systems the fonts get sort of a blurry look.

Sounds like your MGA system has a version of FreeType without the byte 
code interpreter enabled.  Try running apps from the ATI system and 
display them on the MGA system; that should display good looking text if 
my guess is right.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab
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