How can I disable anti-aliasing of screen fonts in sarge?

From: cga (cga2001_at_softhome.net)
Date: 01/07/05

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    I have a sarge system where I initially installed gnome. Apparently
    some fonts were installed at that stage and seem to be the only ones
    available even after I removed gnome, at least to some applications.

    Now these fonts are apparently suitable for all occasions - you have
    the usual serif, sans, mono,.. etc. but unfortunately they are
    anti-aliased to the point of being unreadable.

    I have poked around a bit and found something called fontconfig that
    seems like a replacement for the old X font system (?) - not sure,
    there is some technical doc available for fontconfig but I did not
    find much that explains what it's really for.. Some applications like
    mozilla seem to be fontconfig-aware while others are not.

    Now my question is how can I disable this anti-aliasing? Do I need
    to remove the fontconfig package? At this point I'm considering
    reinstalling gnome, reconfiguring it w/o anti-aliasing and then
    removing it unless s/o could come up w/ a more sensible solution. 

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