Re: kfontview, does it work?

Rex Dieter <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:34:42 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kde.redhat.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Neal Becker wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Neal Becker wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>>> Neal Becker wrote:
>>>>> kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-10.fc9.x86_64
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried kfontview, it doesn't seem to display any text for any of my
>>>>> ttf fonts.
>>>> works here, mind sending my a sample of a non-working font?
>>>>
>>>> Have you tried anything in /usr/share/fonts?
>>>>
>>>> -- Rex
>>> Here is /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf.  Acutally, all fonts look
>>> the same :)
>> confirmed good here.
>>
>> What video hw/driver are you using?  (/me suspects nvidia in there
>> somewhere).
...
> Well, it IS nvidia's latest (from rpmfusion), but do you really think that's 
> it?  I can see the fonts fine in all other apps.

Not sure, but if the only one(s) seeing this are using nvidia, it's hard 
to ignore.

I asked because seeing your comment tickled a memory of seeing a 
similar/related problem reported to ubuntu's launchpad recently (and it 
involved nvidia drivers).

-- Rex

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