[Paraview] Paraview 3.6.1 on Fedora 12 legend labels overdrawn

[Lofthouse, Andrew J Maj USAF AETC AFIT/ENY]

Yes, I saw that in an earlier situation that there may be something to do with nvidia cards, but the Fedora 12 machine (a laptop) has an intel graphics chip -- the CentOS machine has an nvidia card and it does _not_ show the problem...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of Jerome
> Soumagne
> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 8:41 AM
> To: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Paraview 3.6.1 on Fedora 12 legend labels overdrawn
> 
> I'm using Fedora 12 on my laptop and I don't see anything like this.
> I've tried in a few minutes to install the paraview version coming with
> Fedora, loading a simple dataset and displaying the legend, everything
> works fine. I've also a compiled version of paraview which works fine as
> well, no corrupted text.
> There might be something going wrong with your graphic card driver, if
> you have an nvidia card, I would recommend you to install the official
> nvidia driver and not the "nouveau" driver coming with Fedora.
> 
> Jerome
> 
> Le 17/12/2009 13:45, Lofthouse, Andrew J Maj USAF AETC AFIT/ENY a écrit :
> > (Hmm, somehow this reply got past me yesterday -- so my earlier message
> > made it)
> >
> > I've checked the dpi settings on both machines (CentOS and Fedora) and
> > they are both set at 96 dpi.
> >
> > Is there anyone else that is using Paraview on Fedora 12 -- are you
> > seeing the same issue?
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org
> >>
> > [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of Dave Partyka
> >
> >> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 10:25 AM
> >> To: Lofthouse, Andrew J Maj USAF AETC AFIT/ENY
> >> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Paraview 3.6.1 on Fedora 12 legend labels
> >>
> > overdrawn
> >
> >> At a system level is the font dpi higher on fedora (there is typically
> >>
> > some gui way to adjust this)?
> >
> >> Do any other labels render like that, or just legends?
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Lofthouse, Andrew J Maj USAF AETC
> >>
> > AFIT/ENY
> >
> >> <Andrew.Lofthouse at afit.edu>  wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> 	I'm using Paraview 3.6.1 on Fedora 12, and came across the
> >>
> > problem
> >
> >> 	referenced in a previous message to this list
> >>
> >>
> > (http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2009-September/013774.html)
> > in
> >
> >> 	that the legend labels seem to be drawn over each other.  I've
> >>
> > attached a
> >
> >> 	screenshot showing this behavior.
> >>
> >> 	As a comparison, I've looked to see if the same behavior is seen
> >>
> > on another
> >
> >> 	distribution.  Also attached is a screenshot from Paraview 3.6.1
> >>
> > on CentOS
> >
> >> 	5.4, where the legend labels appear as they should.
> >>
> >> 	Paraview on Fedora is from the default repositories, compiled
> >>
> > with qt 4.5.3;
> >
> >> 	Paraview on CentOS 5 is compiled with qt 4.4.3 -- I wonder if
> >>
> > the version of
> >
> >> 	qt makes a difference, although I've also compiled it with qt
> >>
> > 4.5.2 on
> >
> >> 	CentOS 5 and there is no difference there.
> >>
> >> 	Any ideas?
> >>
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