[Solved] Insanely small e17 fonts

Upon doing a 'pacman -S e17-svn' install of 17, I start it up (using startx), and things seem ok except for the fact that the fonts are literally thinner than the border of this post new topic box. I just got the whole system up running and wanted to install this as my default WM (I had been trying it out on BSD earlier before I installed Arch last night.) Whatever popped out of Xorg -configure with those ServerFlags settings to make mouse and keyboard work is my current Xorg config (radeonhd driver for my ati r580, 1920x1200 monitor resolution) - this is what I did on BSD too, standard stuff is no different.
One other side note, whenever I do hwd -e, it says my graphics card is using vesa, even though I have radeonhd (for now) installed and completely removed xf86-video-vesa package, but my Xorg -configure pops up radeonhd for me.
Last edited by Joshmotron (2009-03-06 00:25:13)

danielomen wrote:install ttf-bitstream-vera package
Thanks a lot. I am installing a system from scratch and was stuck...
I'm not sure why ttf-bitstream-vera is not set as a dependency of e17 It would solve lots of hassle...

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