From owner-sgilinux@oss.sgi.com Fri Jan 19 02:08:39 2001 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 02:08:29 -0800 Received: from cinesite1.sohonet.co.uk ([193.203.80.4]:47930 "EHLO scanman.cinesite.co.uk") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 02:08:13 -0800 Received: from cinesite.co.uk (piglet.london.cinesite.com [10.123.10.30]) by scanman.cinesite.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA09901 for <@scanman.cinesite.co.uk:sgilinux@oss.sgi.com>; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:08:05 GMT Received: from cinesite.co.uk (pizza.london.cinesite.com [10.123.10.21]) by cinesite.co.uk (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA27538; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:08:02 GMT Message-ID: <3A681201.4AF9E64E@cinesite.co.uk> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:08:01 +0000 From: Simon Eves Organization: Cinesite Digital Studios (Europe) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.5 IP22) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sgilinux@oss.sgi.com CC: support@cinesite.co.uk, mike_m@cinesite.co.uk Subject: Unreadable Fonts? (SGI230+RH6.2+PP1.3VW) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sgilinux@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;sgilinux-outgoing Dear SGI Linux, We have a couple of SGI 230s running under Linux (Red Hat 6.2 + SGI ProPack 1.3VW) and we have a font legibility problem! The smallest screen font (the one used for labelling desktop icons, and also for small text in A|W Maya) is blocky and unreadable. Please can somebody tell me how to switch fonts, so that I might find one which we can actually read? Thanks Simon -- ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// / Simon Eves / Cinesite Visual Effects (Europe) Ltd. / / Research & Development Manager / 9 Carlisle Street, London W1V 5RG, UK / / simon_e@cinesite.co.uk / +44 (0) 20 7973 4000 (tel) 4040 (fax) / ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// From owner-sgilinux@oss.sgi.com Fri Jan 19 05:26:51 2001 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 05:26:41 -0800 Received: from deliverator.sgi.com ([204.94.214.10]:49762 "EHLO deliverator.sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 05:26:35 -0800 Received: from asdf.engr.sgi.com (asdf.engr.sgi.com [130.62.54.151]) by deliverator.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980310.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id FAA18681 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 05:25:38 -0800 (PST) mail_from (jaya@asdf.engr.sgi.com) Received: (from jaya@localhost) by asdf.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id FAA02081; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 05:24:22 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200101191324.FAA02081@asdf.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: Unreadable Fonts? (SGI230+RH6.2+PP1.3VW) To: simon_e@cinesite.co.uk (Simon Eves) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 05:24:21 -0800 (PST) Cc: sgilinux@oss.sgi.com, support@cinesite.co.uk, mike_m@cinesite.co.uk In-Reply-To: <3A681201.4AF9E64E@cinesite.co.uk> from "Simon Eves" at Jan 19, 2001 10:08:01 AM From: jaya@sgi.com Reply-To: jaya@sgi.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sgilinux@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;sgilinux-outgoing Hi Simon, You may want to try uncommenting the following line in /etc/X11/XF86Config #fontpath "unix/:7100" # uncomment this to use X Font Server and rebooting or redoing the init sequence. The above should expand the list of available fonts and hopefully one of the scalable fonts will get picked. If the result is still unsatisfactory, please go through the appropriate support channel. Regards, jaya > > Dear SGI Linux, > > We have a couple of SGI 230s running under Linux (Red Hat 6.2 + SGI ProPack > 1.3VW) and we have a font legibility problem! > > The smallest screen font (the one used for labelling desktop icons, and also for > small text in A|W Maya) is blocky and unreadable. > > Please can somebody tell me how to switch fonts, so that I might find one which > we can actually read? > > Thanks > > Simon > > -- > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > / Simon Eves / Cinesite Visual Effects (Europe) Ltd. / > / Research & Development Manager / 9 Carlisle Street, London W1V 5RG, UK / > / simon_e@cinesite.co.uk / +44 (0) 20 7973 4000 (tel) 4040 (fax) / > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > From owner-sgilinux@oss.sgi.com Fri Jan 19 05:51:51 2001 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 05:51:31 -0800 Received: from cinesite1.sohonet.co.uk ([193.203.80.4]:37959 "EHLO scanman.cinesite.co.uk") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 05:51:01 -0800 Received: from cinesite.co.uk (piglet.london.cinesite.com [10.123.10.30]) by scanman.cinesite.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02715; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:50:59 GMT Received: from cinesite.co.uk (pizza.london.cinesite.com [10.123.10.21]) by cinesite.co.uk (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id NAA05310; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:50:56 GMT Message-ID: <3A684640.8C9D84C3@cinesite.co.uk> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:50:56 +0000 From: Simon Eves Organization: Cinesite Digital Studios (Europe) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.5 IP22) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jaya@sgi.com CC: sgilinux@oss.sgi.com, support@cinesite.co.uk, mike_m@cinesite.co.uk Subject: Re: Unreadable Fonts? (SGI230+RH6.2+PP1.3VW) References: <200101191324.FAA02081@asdf.engr.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sgilinux@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;sgilinux-outgoing jaya@sgi.com wrote: > > You may want to try uncommenting the following line in > /etc/X11/XF86Config > > #fontpath "unix/:7100" # uncomment this to use X Font Server > > and rebooting or redoing the init sequence. The above should expand > the list of available fonts and hopefully one of the scalable fonts > will get picked. If the result is still unsatisfactory, please go > through the appropriate support channel. Dear Jaya, Thank you for this suggestion. Unfortunately, it didn't make any difference. The font looks exactly the same. I will read up on the X Font Server to see if I can persuade it to use a different one. Cheers, Simon -- ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// / Simon Eves / Cinesite Visual Effects (Europe) Ltd. / / Research & Development Manager / 9 Carlisle Street, London W1V 5RG, UK / / simon_e@cinesite.co.uk / +44 (0) 20 7973 4000 (tel) 4040 (fax) / //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////