must be something strange they have done to mandrake 10 and anti aliased tt fonts support
just like redhat they use that darn font server -- totally pointless unless you are serving fonts over a network
X has it's own modular support for freetype without the server but things need to be compiled with freetype support.
i know nothing about mandrake.
i hate to tell you about ways to try to fix it since i know so nothing about what they have done
i'm assuming the tt fonts you installed are working -- look at xfontsel to verify
if not work on getting them setup and recognized first
to test if x aa font support is working try
xterm -fa arial
if it doesn't complain about "RENDER" and the arial font looks all spaced out too far then x in compiled and setup ok and your driver is setup ok.
i guess check that aa fonts are turned on if they can be in whatever desktop you are using
there is a ckeck box under fonts for kde to use anti aliasing
if you want to try to bypass the fontserver and see if x works better
in xconfig file take out the line like
FontPath "unix/:7100"
and instead put in actual paths
(this is mine don't copy it directly it's just an example)
Code:
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/MS/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"
make sure under modules you have
Load "freetype"
mine says
Code:
Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
Load "freetype"