What do I need to do to enable Anti-aliasing with
Mandrake 8.0?
--- Eric Plante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just discovered something about AA sluggishness.
> I've posted it on
> mandrakeuser (is there _anyone_ over there?).
>
> Anyway, my post is at:
>
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/mub/viewtopic.php?topic=229&forum=5&0
> . Go
> take a look and send me your comments.
>
> Hey, I just noticed that their damn thing chopped my
> post off. So
> anyway, here it is in its entirety:
>
> --
>
> Here's an interesting one. I got AA to work with
> RH7/XF403/KDE21 and now
> with LM8 (slightly easier). I've always had a pretty
> bad performance
> problem with it though: clicking on the Terminal
> icon for instance would
> take nearly 20 seconds if I was lucky, and it was
> worst for stuff that
> required more fonts, like Koqueror.
>
> I finally found out what the problem was, and
> actually found it by
> accident while trying to fix the startx script. I
> have a cable-modem for
> internet access, with my network card configured
> through dhcp. My host
> name is a bogus one that actually used to be valid
> back in the days when
> justlinux dynamic dns was usable. If I do a hostname
> -f in the shell, it
> will hang for nearly 20 seconds before it gives a
> host name lookup
> failure. If, however, I edit /etc/hosts to contain
> my
> dynamically-allocated IP address and my (bogus)
> machine name, then
> ta-da, hostname -f worksand all of a sudden AA
> applications start just
> as fast as every other!!
>
> Does anyone else have this problem? Maybe it's worth
> mentioning to
> Mandrake as a bug report? How should I do that?
>
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