Friggin fonts

[John Summerfield <summer os2 ami com au>]

Some time ago I upgraded everything surrounding my disk drive;-)

New case, no mobo, new CPU etc. 

And a new video card:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Vanta [NV6] (rev 
15) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >
TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64 (1250ns min, 250ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) 
[size=16M]
        Region 1: Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
        Expansion ROM at e3ff0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0
                Status: RQ=31 SBA- 64bit- FW- Rate=x1,x2
                Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>


Same old monitor though.

Linux went from booting drive hde to booting hda in a different 
computer with hardly a hiccough; I expected to but didn't need to run 
lilo first. Did have to override root, but that was about it.

Framebuffer worked as well as it had before, and I didn't need to 
reconfigure  XFree - it kept right on using the framebuffer driver I 
was using for the previous video adaptor, based on the I740.


My favoured desktop at present is KDE. The problem I have is with KDE - 
it does not happen in Gnome.

Fonts on menubars (I'm looking at konsole but it applies to other KDE 
apps), on toolbars, on the desktop itself, in Konqueror and in kmail 
are unsightly large Helvitica. Kmail is evidently unaarw of what font 
it's using - text runs off the edge long before kmail thinks it needs 
to wrap.


If I login to my old system all is fine. The installed software when 
the problem first began was the same - I'd cloned the old system's disk 
for backup reasons while I repartitioned it.

Home directories are shared via nfs so users' settings are the same on 
all four systems on the LAN. Despite that, I HAVE tried adjusting my 
personal settings wrt font choices to no avail.

Any handy hints?





-- 
Cheers
John Summerfield

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