[gentoo-user] A week of struggle

[gentoo-user] A week of struggle

[econti]

Hi all,
as the subject says! ;-)
Now my system should be updated. gcc, world and, to-day, the kernel. 
Well, everything seems to work fine . . . but:

1 among the boot options I had "vga=0x317". Now this option gives me:
   "You passed an undefined mode number."
   "Press <RETURN> to see video modes available, <SPACE> to continue or 
wait 30 secs.
   "Video adapter: VESA VGA"
   "Mode:       COLSxROWS:
   0  0F00          80 x 25
   1  0F01          80 x 50
   2  0F02          80 x 43
   3  0F03          80 x 28
   4  0F05          80 x 30
   5  0F06          80 x 34
   6  0F07          80 x 60"
   Why this? What have I forgotten in kernel configuration?

2 (this is really incredible) fonts disappeared on the Realplayer 
window!!!!! Instead of chars . . . boxes. i.e. file = 4 boxes, settings 
= 7 boxes, etc ??????
Realplayer works fine but it is the only one app with this problem.

I need some tips. ;-)

Regards

emilio

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Re: [gentoo-user] A week of struggle

[Dan Farrell]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:48:06 +0100
econti <contiemilio@alice.it> wrote:

> Hi all,
> as the subject says! ;-)
> Now my system should be updated. gcc, world and, to-day, the kernel. 
> Well, everything seems to work fine . . . but:
> 
> 1 among the boot options I had "vga=0x317". Now this option gives me:
>    "You passed an undefined mode number."
>    "Press <RETURN> to see video modes available, <SPACE> to continue
> or wait 30 secs.
>    "Video adapter: VESA VGA"
>    "Mode:       COLSxROWS:
>    0  0F00          80 x 25
>    1  0F01          80 x 50
>    2  0F02          80 x 43
>    3  0F03          80 x 28
>    4  0F05          80 x 30
>    5  0F06          80 x 34
>    6  0F07          80 x 60"
>    Why this? What have I forgotten in kernel configuration?

not exactly sure, but I'd look under menuconfig-> Device Drivers->
Graphics support.  In particular: 
<*>   VESA VGA graphics support 
        VESA driver type (vesafb)  (use vesafb-tng on 32-bit)
Console display driver support  --->
 [*]   Video mode selection support (you already have this i think)
 <*> Framebuffer Console support (you probably have this already)

> 2 (this is really incredible) fonts disappeared on the Realplayer ->
> Graphics support window!!!!! Instead of chars . . . boxes. i.e. file
> = 4 boxes,settings = 7 boxes, etc ??????
> Realplayer works fine but it is the only one app with this problem.

I had the same problem with firefox-bin not so long ago.  I created a
forum thread about it:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4185590.html#4185590

don't know if it'll help or not.  

> Regards
> 
> emilio
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] A week of struggle

[econti]

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>> not exactly sure, but I'd look under menuconfig-> Device Drivers->
>> Graphics support.  In particular: 
>> <*>   VESA VGA graphics support 
>>         VESA driver type (vesafb)  (use vesafb-tng on 32-bit)
>> Console display driver support  --->
>>  [*]   Video mode selection support (you already have this i think)
>>  <*> Framebuffer Console support (you probably have this already)
>>     
No, I had not these!
Now it works.

>>     
>> 2 (this is really incredible) fonts disappeared on the Realplayer ->
>> Graphics support window!!!!! Instead of chars . . . boxes. i.e. file
>> = 4 boxes,settings = 7 boxes, etc ??????
>> Realplayer works fine but it is the only one app with this problem.
>>     
>
> I had the same problem with firefox-bin not so long ago.  I created a
> forum thread about it:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4185590.html#4185590
>   
Very usefull link.
> don't know if it'll help or not.
It helped!! I solved emerging emul-linux-x86-gtklibs

Many thanks.

emilio

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Re: [gentoo-user] A week of struggle

[Liviu Andronic]

On 10/30/07, econti <contiemilio@alice.it> wrote:
> 2 (this is really incredible) fonts disappeared on the Realplayer
> window!!!!! Instead of chars . . . boxes. i.e. file = 4 boxes, settings
> = 7 boxes, etc ??????
> Realplayer works fine but it is the only one app with this problem.

This may not be entirely relevant to your problem, but it's worth a check.

The fonts provided by the corefonts package are _badly_ corrupted, and
largely out-dated (it would even be worth to file a bug). For example,
if you make any GTK+ application use them (like any Xfce module or
emelFM2), it will display boxes instead of text.

So, check to make sure that Realplayer doesn't use Arial or something
similar. If it does, get your hands on the MS fonts from an existing
Windows installation, install them manually, remove corefonts and
check that the paths conform in xorg.conf and the xfs config file (if
you use the latter).

Regards,
Liviu
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