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fonts have become bad after doing dist-upgradeI did a dist-upgrade today and after that the fonts have become thinner and uneven. Like some vertical lines (2nd. vertical line of U, etc.) appear faded. The following are some outputs that might be helpful for diagnosis:- lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) /etc/X11/xorg.conf VSection "Device" Please help me. How can I improve the fonts? Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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Font appearance
Although I'm not really sure what is causing your font problems I've noticed that whenever I do a fresh installation bitmapped fonts are enabled by default--which results in fonts looking horrible on my monitor. So, I have to run
# dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config
and then select 'No' when I'm asked if I want bitmapped fonts enabled by default.
--oldfolio
Font appearance
I tried reconfiguring fontconfig-config. But it did not solve the problem.
Font appearance
Settings to check include:
antialiasing - Some fonts (especially small ones) just look awful with antialiasing.
sub-pixel rendering (for LCDs only) - this improves the appearance of (mostly small) fonts on LCD screens
With KDE, both should be available in the 'font' section of the control panel. If subpixel rendering doesn't show up it may be because your hardware doesn't support it.
Font appearance
I am using GNome.
From, System > Preferences > Fonts, I changed Font Rendering to Subpixel smoothing (LCDs).
I can't find a place where I can specify antialiasing.I would appreciate some help since I am new to Linux Display Managers.
.font.conf
First try the : http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Font-HOWTO/
Second, .......
1. My source.list file :
deb http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian/ etch main
# deb-src http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian/ etch main
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt etch main
#AUTOMATIX REPOS START
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main non-free contrib
#AUTOMATIX REPOS END
deb http://www.backports.org/backports.org/ etch-backports main contrib non-free
# deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main
deb http://ftp2.de.debian-unofficial.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free restricted
2. I have installed : libfreetype6, libcairo2, libxft2
See : http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#How_to_improve_sub-pixel_font_rendering_for_Feisty
3. And finally :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=4456&highlight=smooth,
specially the advice of "ferd" :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=4456&highlight=smooth&page=14
The results are impressive !!!!
Try and inform !!!!