KDE 4.3 RC2 - Some Fonts Not Smooth and Audio Stuttering

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Upgraded to KDE 4.3 RC2 yesterday. Since then,I’ve been having some weird font issues. The same font looks smooth in some places but looks not so good in some other places (eg. drop down menus). Fonts anti-aliasing appears to be turned on. I don’t know what I’m missing.

http://ikurt.com/personal/forumpics/DesktopSettingsFontIssue.png

Also, mp3 playback on Amarok and Juk is pretty bad. Amarok stutters pretty bad. Juk is OK but it still stutters once in a while. Sound on youtube videos and Pandora One player (AIR application) is just fine. The issue is only when using Amarok/Juk. I remember having similar issue in the past which went away after removing pulse. But I don’t know what to do now since Pulse has already been removed.

Any suggestions?

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This my font settings
http://thumbnails8.imagebam.com/3210/9d5e5332096616.gif](http://www.imagebam.com/image/9d5e5332096616)

Mind you your picture looks ok to me.

Check to see if amarok is using the Xine backend

Make sure you have Videolan repo disabled and if red and blue packages show in Packman, make sure you have done an unconditional update in Packman.