Blurred fonts under the X.org + Mesa + DRI

[Wei-Tsun Sun]

Well, in my case, qt3 programs are stuffed. QT4 are alright. GTK2s are alright too.

Here is my screenshot, i am running open source driver with radeon 7500.

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc312/wsun013/20071212-xorg/a.png

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:07:54 +0500
"paul paul" <techservio at gmail.com> wrote:

> X.org and Mesa were installed  (from git) over the fresh installation of
> LFS.
> The video-card is Radeon 9600 with proper driver settings in the xorg.conf
> (radeon).
> 
> The X window starts properly. Direct rendering is enabled and glxgears shows
> ~3000fps.
> According to the log-file the r300_dri driver is actually loaded and this is
> why
> Open-GL and DRI are functioning properly, I guess.
> 
> Yet a huge problem exists in the work of the window managers. (I tried
> IceWM and KDE3).
> That is: fonts (including labels, texts and  menu items) are blurred (as if
> they were cross-hatched). Snapshot:
> http://www.myfilestash.com/userfiles/techservio/snapshot2.jpg.
> If  the driver is set into the "vesa" mode, the letters are displayed
> properly, but the direct rendering is obviously not supported.
> 
> It must be noted that in the case of  KDE4, letters, in general, are
> visualized properly, but in the GTK-based applications letters are still
> blurred .
> 
> Did anyone experienced  the same problem? If so what is the solution (if
> any, in the case of Radeon 9600 video-card)?
> 
> I also tried to use the proprietary ATI driver. After the driver was
> installed  ("fglrx"  in the xorg.conf), X did not start. The following error
> message was  issued:
> 
> (II) Loading /opt/xorg/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
> dlopen: /opt/xorg/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol:
> miZeroLineScreenIndex
> (EE) Failed to load /opt/xorg/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
> (II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
> (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (loader failed, 7)
> 
> Does any one know about the nature of this error message?