[SOLVED] nvidia driver 180.06 and hinting

[musta ruhtinas]

I am experiencing some issues with font rendering after updating to the latest nvidia driver (180.06). With hinting enabled, some characters appear chopped (see attachment). Without hinting fonts display correctly, but are ugly. Reconfiguring fontconfig-config (native, automatic, not bitmapped) and fontconfig solves nothing. This behaviour occurs only with this set of drivers.
Is there a way to correct this?

EDIT:

 nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=0 -a GlyphCache=0

fixes it

[swalker23]

Re: nvidia driver 180.06 and hinting

Aren't the 180 drivers still in beta?

[musta ruhtinas]

Re: nvidia driver 180.06 and hinting

Aren't the 180 drivers still in beta?

Yes, they are. However, KDE4 and nvidia 177 didn't get along very well for me .
The new drivers behave better overall, except for this font clipping.

 nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=0 -a GlyphCache=0

fixes it

[troycarpenter]

Re: [SOLVED] nvidia driver 180.06 and hinting

I've downloaded the latest 180.18 driver, but before I blindly install it, is there anything I should do first, or is there a guide to installing non-packaged video drivers into Kubuntu? I don't want to screw up the system.

[dibl]

Re: [SOLVED] nvidia driver 180.06 and hinting

Reply #19 on this:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...pic=3100584.15

[troycarpenter]

Re: [SOLVED] nvidia driver 180.06 and hinting

Thanks! I just came across that thread and posted a question there.