Font on Linux

Sledge · Post by **Sledge** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 1:13 am

I have recently discovered BZflag and have been enjoying getting blown to smithereens for a while each evening. My problem is that the font used for the text is only semi-legible. The letters alternate different shades of light and dark so I can ususally only read about half of them. I am running this on Linux Fedora Core 3. Is there some sort of font I need to download? Thanks.

Post by **DTRemenak** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 1:56 am

What graphics card are you using, and what drivers? If you're using an ATI card and it's new enough to use ATI's binary drivers, go get them. If it's not new enough or you're using a different brand of card you might be out of luck until the DRI drivers get fixed to work right with x.org. (Assuming http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/DRI/resolved/bzflag.jpeg matches your problem)

Red Baron2 · Post by **Red Baron2** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 3:52 pm

i don't know, you probably already tried this, but there are 2 font size settings under gui options, "bigger" and "normal". you may have known that, but if not try "bigger," it may help.... also under gui options, run your opacity all the way up, that might help too..

Sledge · Post by **Sledge** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 3:30 pm

I tried the size and opacity contols to no avail. As far as the drivers, my card is too old. It is odd though, this is the only program I have run into with a problem. Everything else looks fine in the game except the text (including the text in all the menus except the main one) that is why I was wondering if it was a font issue. Thanks for the suggestions. Any other ideas/theories/wags?

Legoguy · Post by **Legoguy** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:42 pm

I have this problem too; I posted on the forum about it some time ago as well. The ATI Radeon Mobility IGP320M that my laptop has is too old/not powerful enough to support the binary drivers so I'm stuck with DRI; they just got DRI working on that chip too. No way to fix it yet I'm afraid.