[SOLVED] Picasa menu font - looks bad!!!

Some time ago I worte about problem with picasa-beta (AUR) and xorg-server on my 64bit arch install.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=60162
So I reinstall my system, and now it's 32bit. Of course picasa still looks like shit.
Main window, after first start:
Picasa-beta:
Could you help me to solve the problem. I don't want to alsways downgrade my xorg-server to older version.
Last edited by dziq (2009-01-27 13:52:07)

cdwillis wrote:I think it's a problem with Nvidia drivers and Wine. I never could find a workaround for getting the fonts to display correctly, but I really didn't put a lot of effort into it.
I confim! The problem is nvidia-96xx driver. When I've installed nouveau driver instead everything seems to be ok. But this driver isn't as good as nvidia.
There is another way to fix up font. Just upgrade nvidia-96xx and nvidia-96xx-utils to 96.43.10-2 version by modyfing PKGBUILD's.
Last edited by dziq (2009-01-29 10:46:21)

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