Poor rendering of pages using IceWeasel 3.0
 

Hi

I have been finding that graphics and text are being rendered very
poorly using IceWeasel 3.0. Is there a way I can fix this? I have
checked through the options, etc., in IW but find nothing relevant.


I am using an up-to-date Lenny machine.

Thanks

Andy

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Poor rendering of pages using IceWeasel 3.0
 

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On 07/26/08 09:00, andy wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have been finding that graphics and text are being rendered very
> poorly using IceWeasel 3.0. Is there a way I can fix this? I have
> checked through the options, etc., in IW but find nothing relevant.
>
> I am using an up-to-date Lenny machine.

A similar question has been asked a few times in the past month on
this list. Do you have an ATI video card? If so, the radeon (or
radeonhd") driver plus XAA configured in xorg.conf might speed you up.

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Poor rendering of pages using IceWeasel 3.0
 

andy wrote:

Hi

I have been finding that graphics and text are being rendered very
poorly using IceWeasel 3.0. Is there a way I can fix this? I have
checked through the options, etc., in IW but find nothing relevant.


I am using an up-to-date Lenny machine.

Thanks

Andy


Ron

Sorry for not getting back sooner.

No I am not using an ATi card - rather a nVidia GeForce 8500. Before the
IW3.0 upgrade, pages rendered fine. Now the images are "fuzzy" and the
text looks a bit scratchy. This seems to be on most pages I browse to.


Having reviewed previous posts here on this topic I cannot find anything
really that helps, and since it is since the upgrade, I am wont to
suspect that IW3.0 is the culprit rather than any hardware issues on my
side.


Andy

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Poor rendering of pages using IceWeasel 3.0
 

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On 07/27/08 15:54, andy wrote:
> andy wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have been finding that graphics and text are being rendered very
>> poorly using IceWeasel 3.0. Is there a way I can fix this? I have
>> checked through the options, etc., in IW but find nothing relevant.
>>
>> I am using an up-to-date Lenny machine.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Andy
>>
> Ron
>
> Sorry for not getting back sooner.
>
> No I am not using an ATi card - rather a nVidia GeForce 8500. Before the
> IW3.0 upgrade, pages rendered fine. Now the images are "fuzzy" and the
> text looks a bit scratchy. This seems to be on most pages I browse to.
>
> Having reviewed previous posts here on this topic I cannot find anything
> really that helps, and since it is since the upgrade, I am wont to
> suspect that IW3.0 is the culprit rather than any hardware issues on my
> side.

Hmmm. Nothing changed when I upgraded, and that was back at -rc2.

One thing is that occasionally (in the past) I've noticed that IW
would change my font list after an upgrade. Hasn't happened since
the mid 2.0.0.x series, though. That might be something to consider.

Here are the relevant sections of my xorg.conf.

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
Option "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "record"
Load "type1"
Disable "v4l"
Disable "dri"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 SE]"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:6:0:0"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
# Device "nVidia Corporation Unknown"
Monitor "GatewayVX112"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection



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Poor rendering of pages using IceWeasel 3.0
 

Ron Johnson wrote:

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On 07/27/08 15:54, andy wrote:


andy wrote:


Hi

I have been finding that graphics and text are being rendered very
poorly using IceWeasel 3.0. Is there a way I can fix this? I have
checked through the options, etc., in IW but find nothing relevant.

I am using an up-to-date Lenny machine.

Thanks

Andy



Ron

Sorry for not getting back sooner.

No I am not using an ATi card - rather a nVidia GeForce 8500. Before the
IW3.0 upgrade, pages rendered fine. Now the images are "fuzzy" and the
text looks a bit scratchy. This seems to be on most pages I browse to.

Having reviewed previous posts here on this topic I cannot find anything
really that helps, and since it is since the upgrade, I am wont to
suspect that IW3.0 is the culprit rather than any hardware issues on my
side.



Hmmm. Nothing changed when I upgraded, and that was back at -rc2.

One thing is that occasionally (in the past) I've noticed that IW
would change my font list after an upgrade. Hasn't happened since
the mid 2.0.0.x series, though. That might be something to consider.

Here are the relevant sections of my xorg.conf.

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
Option "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "record"
Load "type1"
Disable "v4l"
Disable "dri"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 SE]"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:6:0:0"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
# Device "nVidia Corporation Unknown"
Monitor "GatewayVX112"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection



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Ron

That looks not too dissimilar to my own /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, using
the 2.6.25-2 kernel:



# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Thu Feb 14
18:20:37 PST 2008


Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "nvidia"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "TV"
Option "Coolbits" "1"
Option "RandRRotation" "1"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "1"
Option "TripleBuffer" "0"
Option "DynamicTwinView" "1"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection


Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "1"
# Option "RENDER" "0"
EndSection


No obvious issues here that I can see.

Andy

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