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daakbahok
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Font rendering issue

#1 Post by daakbahok »

Just installed MX Linux KDE on a new machine (Asus Zenbook UM433IQ) with Ryzen 7 4700u processor. It has nVidia MX350 graphics card too. I have not installed the nvidia drivers yet. The issue I am having is font rendering. Font looking very blurry. I have tried changing font config but it has not helped much. Any help would be very much appreciated.
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JayM
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Re: Font rendering issue

#2 Post by JayM »

Welcome. Please run Quick System Info and post your system information by following the instructions here. Thanks.
Please read the Forum Rules, How To Ask For Help, How to Break Your System and Don't Break Debian. Always include your full Quick System Info (QSI) with each and every new help request.
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daakbahok
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Re: Font rendering issue

#3 Post by daakbahok »

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System:    Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.6.0-2-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.6.0-2-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.14.5 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
           Distro: MX-19.2_KDE_x64 patito feo August 16  2020 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ZenBook UX434IQ_UM433IQ v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: UX434IQ v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends 
           v: UX434IQ_UM433IQ.301 date: 05/07/2020 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 47.7 Wh condition: 50.6/50.0 Wh (101%) volts: 11.9/11.9 
           model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Discharging cycles: 2 
           Device-1: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse B330/M330/M331 serial: <filter> 
           charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:       Topology: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Zen 
           family: 17 (23) model-id: 60 (96) stepping: 1 microcode: 8600103 L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 31941 
           Speed: 1368 MHz min/max: 1400/2000 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1368 2: 1410 
           3: 1441 4: 1371 5: 1494 6: 1312 7: 1474 8: 1479 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
           Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 
           mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: ASUSTeK driver: N/A bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1c96 
           Device-2: AMD Renoir vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.0 
           chip ID: 1002:1636 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: amdgpu FAILED: ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           compositor: kwin_x11 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.36.0 5.6.0-2-amd64 LLVM 10.0.0) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.5 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.1 chip ID: 1002:1637 
           Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: ASUSTeK driver: N/A 
           bus ID: 04:00.5 chip ID: 1022:15e2 
           Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 04:00.6 chip ID: 1022:15e3 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.6.0-2-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Intel driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 8086:2723 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 8.47 GiB (1.8%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLQ512HALU-00000 size: 476.94 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: FXV7000Q 
           scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 97.66 GiB size: 95.62 GiB (97.92%) used: 7.83 GiB (8.2%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 
           ID-2: /home raw size: 283.20 GiB size: 277.76 GiB (98.08%) used: 635.2 MiB (0.2%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 9.77 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) 
           cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 42 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           2: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ buster ahs
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nordvpn.list 
           1: deb https://repo.nordvpn.com/deb/nordvpn/debian stable main
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main
Info:      Processes: 258 Uptime: 11m Memory: 15.13 GiB used: 1.34 GiB (8.8%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 
           runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: quick-system-in 
           running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36
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daakbahok
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Re: Font rendering issue

#4 Post by daakbahok »

JayM wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2020 10:56 pm Welcome. Please run Quick System Info and post your system information by following the instructions here. Thanks.
I noticed this line in the system info
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: amdgpu FAILED:

could that be something related to the font issue?
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tony37
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Re: Font rendering issue

#5 Post by tony37 »

daakbahok wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2020 4:38 pm I noticed this line in the system info
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: amdgpu FAILED:

could that be something related to the font issue?
it actually says: "driver: amdgpu" and then "FAILED: ati". I have that text about ati too actually, I don't think it's related to the font issue
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daakbahok
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Re: Font rendering issue

#6 Post by daakbahok »

Rendered font looks blurry. I tried to change font settings KDE settings (hinting, DPI etc) but still looks the same.
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tony37
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Re: Font rendering issue

#7 Post by tony37 »

With new hardware like this, it's often worthwhile to test a newer kernel. I found this for example: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= ... 500U-Tests (Linux 5.8 Bringing Some Performance Boosts For AMD Renoir Graphics)
For the moment the 5.8 kernel is still a bit experimental for MX Linux (trouble with building nvidia modules for example), but that might change quickly. You could test the 5.8 Liquorix kernel by installing linux-image-5.8.0-7.1-liquorix-amd64 and linux-headers-5.8.0-7.1-liquorix-amd64 from the MX Test Repo tab in MX Package Installer.

Kernel 5.7 may already bring improvements for you, as people here seem to say. Then you can also choose the Debian Backports 5.7 kernel instead of the Liquorix one.
I can't promise it will solve your font issues, but longer term you will want a newer kernel anyway.
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daakbahok
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Re: Font rendering issue

#8 Post by daakbahok »

tony37 wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2020 6:41 pm With new hardware like this, it's often worthwhile to test a newer kernel. I found this for example: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= ... 500U-Tests (Linux 5.8 Bringing Some Performance Boosts For AMD Renoir Graphics)
For the moment the 5.8 kernel is still a bit experimental for MX Linux (trouble with building nvidia modules for example), but that might change quickly. You could test the 5.8 Liquorix kernel by installing linux-image-5.8.0-7.1-liquorix-amd64 and linux-headers-5.8.0-7.1-liquorix-amd64 from the MX Test Repo tab in MX Package Installer.

Kernel 5.7 may already bring improvements for you, as people here seem to say. Then you can also choose the Debian Backports 5.7 kernel instead of the Liquorix one.
I can't promise it will solve your font issues, but longer term you will want a newer kernel anyway.
Thanks a lot. I will give it a try although at this point I am not looking for performance boost but the solve the font issue.
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Stevo
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Re: Font rendering issue

#9 Post by Stevo »

Is the native resolution of your screen 1920 x 1080?
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daakbahok
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Re: Font rendering issue

#10 Post by daakbahok »

Stevo wrote: Wed Sep 09, 2020 3:31 am Is the native resolution of your screen 1920 x 1080?
Yes, it is.
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