Bug #19284 Display problem on VIA graphics chip
Submitted: 22 Apr 2006 23:13 Modified: 9 May 2006 8:39
Reporter: Peter Laursen (Basic Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Workbench Preview Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:1.0.6 OS:Windows (WinXP SP2)
Assigned to: Michael G. Zinner CPU Architecture:Any

[22 Apr 2006 23:13] Peter Laursen 
Description:
This - I believe has been reported before - by other users on previous versions.

Problem is that Workbench displays fonts very small and 'corny' on some graphics systems.  Nothing is readable and program is unusable.  I attach a screenshot from a system with a highly integrated VIA mini-ITX based mainborad with a integrated system graphics.  More precisely this one: http://linitx.com/product_info.php?cPath=14_47&products_id=490

How to repeat:
Test the program on a similar system ...

Suggested fix:
use graphics routines that don't depend on vendor specific Chip-integrated routines (my best guess)
[22 Apr 2006 23:14] Peter Laursen 
Example of program display on this system

Attachment: workbench.jpg (image/jpeg, text), 79.67 KiB.
[22 Apr 2006 23:17] Peter Laursen 
I forgot:  I have another system with a Athlon XP-based motherboard and a about 4 year old nvidia geforce graphics card.  Here the display is as it should.

Also no other MySQL programs (MA, QB etc.) have display problems on this 'mini'
[23 Apr 2006 5:48] Peter Laursen 
I now noted that the installation screen displays something like:

"You must have a 3D accelerated Graphics Card with at least 16 MB of memory'

Now I have 16 MB of (shared) Video Memory.  But if the situation is that such video system is not supported, that is the way it it.  But is it necessary with a 'Gamer' machine to run this program?  Lots of office machine with a similar shared graphics systems using a Intel graphics chip, for instance. And there is absolutely no need for 3D graphics here (shadows, transparencies etc) - ther is only 2D graphics in the program.  This PC runs Photoshop on WinXP and GIMP on SuSE 10.1 RC without porblems!  Looks like a complete misunderstanding of what computer graphics is in my opinion ... unless it is just a bug :-)
[24 Apr 2006 13:20] MySQL Verification Team 
Thank you for the bug report.
[30 Apr 2006 1:16] Peter Laursen 
Atttached the OpenGL characteristics of the GPU as reported by Eversest program (www.lavalys.com)

Attachment: Report.txt (text/plain), 22.73 KiB.
[9 May 2006 7:45] Michael G. Zinner 
This problem occurs when a very first version of Workbench was installed which had a false configuration file.

To fix this, please open the file 

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\MySQL\Common Options.xml

and change the line with the key="DefaultFontHeight" to 13.

<value type="string" key="DefaultFontHeight">13</value>

This should solve the text display problem.
[9 May 2006 8:31] Peter Laursen 
YUP ...

that did the trick.  Thanks