CentOS - Oct 2015 - Centos 7, ATI/AMD video, fonts

A newly built CentOS 7.1 system, with an ATI/AMD video card. I installed
the proprietary driver (this is a Dell, and they had their own rpm), and
after I ran aticonfig --initial, init 3, then init 5, and we have a
working video.

Excerpt the fonts are atrocious. All the letters seem to be missing
pixels, so it's as though there's no across, almost.

He's running gnome. There has to be a quick fix - a link would be great.

Thanks in advance.

       mark

On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 17:20:17 -0400
m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> A newly built CentOS 7.1 system, with an ATI/AMD video card. I installed
> the proprietary driver (this is a Dell, and they had their own rpm), and
> after I ran aticonfig --initial, init 3, then init 5, and we have a
> working video.
How did it look BEFORE you installed the proprietary driver?

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On Thu, October 22, 2015 4:20 pm, m.roth at 5-cent.us
wrote:
> A newly built CentOS 7.1 system, with an ATI/AMD video card. I installed
> the proprietary driver (this is a Dell, and they had their own rpm), and
> after I ran aticonfig --initial, init 3, then init 5, and we have a
> working video.
Any particular reason to have proprietary video driver? I have Dell
Optiplex-es with most generic of ATI cards; latest CentOS 7
"automagically" handles two screens (even combination of screens of
different resolution) attached to this ATI card out of the box. Just
curious.

Valeri
>
> Excerpt the fonts are atrocious. All the letters seem to be missing
> pixels, so it's as though there's no across, almost.
>
> He's running gnome. There has to be a quick fix - a link would be
great.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>        mark

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