[PlanetCCRMA] alsa-tools

Len lenb_99 at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 23 10:16:14 PDT 2009


--- On Wed, 9/23/09, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> From: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
> Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] alsa-tools
> To: "Len" <lenb_99 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 1:10 PM
> 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


Yes, I agree that would be more appropriate.  I will file a bug report.

Thanks!

Len


      




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