[PlanetCCRMA] alsa-tools

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 19:02 -0700, Len wrote:
> --- On Tue, 9/22/09, Len <lenb_99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > From: Len <lenb_99 at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [PlanetCCRMA] alsa-tools
> > To: planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> > Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 6:55 PM
> > I recently re-installed PlanetCCRMA
> > on F10, and when I try to launch echomixer (to control Echo
> > Audio Layla24 interface) I get:
> > 
> > 'Cannot find the font'
> > 
> > I ran this down several months ago and it was needing some
> > font for one of the toolkits like tk or fltk or something -
> > I seem to remember some X-related lib maybe?  Now I
> > can't seem to find a solution.  I installed
> > planetccrma-apps to be sure that I had everything but no
> > go.  Any ideas?
> > 
> 
> To update my previous post, there's this section in echomixer.c :
> 
>   gtk_init(&argc, &argv);
>   fnt=gdk_font_load("-misc-fixed-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*");
>   if (!fnt) {
>     printf("Cannot find the font\n");
>     exit(1);
>   }
> 
> Does anybody know what specific gtk app/toolkit this would relate to?  I have installed gtk+, gtk+devel, gtk+extra, gtk+extra-devel, gtk2, gtk2-devel, etc...   The font name in the gdk_font_load looks like an X font.
> 
> Ah!  Got it.  Had to install xorg-x11-fonts-misc.
> 
> Nevermind...   If anybody else runs into this problem, that's the fix.  
> 
> Fernando, would it make sense to add xorg-x11-fonts-misc as a planetccrma-apps metapackage dependency?  Just a thought.

I guess the right thing would be add it as a dependency in alsa-tools,
which is on Fedora, hmmmm, could you file a bug in bugzilla.redhat.com?

-- Fernando