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drtoki

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[solved]Wine font rendering + libmpg123 question

Not sure how to describe the problem, so please refer to screenshot below. I have the MS font package installed. I've modified the registry according to the wine wiki article. I tried symlinking my ttf fonts directory to the .wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts directory. I have even tried copying the entire ttf directly into the .wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts directory. I still cannot read anything. As you can see from the screenshot, the Tahoma font example shows up clearly, but nothing else is legible. What can I do to get to the bottom of this?

Additionally, I get this error when I invoke wine.

err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winemp3.acm": libmpg123.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Is this related to my issue? I thought libmpg123 only affected mp3 support. Is it necessary to have libmpg123? I assumed it wasn't since it's not in any of the repos.

Last edited by drtoki (2009-09-09 20:04:22)

djszapi

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Re: [solved]Wine font rendering + libmpg123 question

Hello Drtoki!

Did you try to install/reinstall mpg123 package ? Anyway, I can't see nothing from the screenshot.

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drtoki

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Re: [solved]Wine font rendering + libmpg123 question

Hello Drtoki!

Did you try to install/reinstall mpg123 package ? Anyway, I can't see nothing from the screenshot.

What do you mean? Does the screenshot not show up for you?

No, I did not try to install the libmpg123 because as far as I know it only deals with mp3s, not font rendering. The package isn't in any of the repos so I assumed no one else had a need for it. My question, in regards to libmpg123, is if that assumption is correct.  The bigger question for me is why the fonts are rendered in such an illegible fashion.

gav616

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Re: [solved]Wine font rendering + libmpg123 question

i get the same 'winemp3' stuff.

Wine now uses external 'libmpg123' for mp3 decoding. (patent issues)
maybe the arch devs need to add '--without-libmpg123' in the build, to fix this.

http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t … =libmpg123

regarding the fonts, try;

Installing 'ttf-ms-fonts' and 'ttf-tahoma'

link the installed Truetype fonts to wine;

# ln -s /usr/share/fonts/TTF /usr/share/wine/fonts

btw Wine is starting to use alot of external native nix packages now, which is a good thing. (i.e. ms fonts, decoders ect..)

Last edited by gav616 (2009-09-07 14:06:02)

drtoki

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Re: [solved]Wine font rendering + libmpg123 question

oh I didn't realize wine had a fonts directory under /usr/share/wine. I thought it read everything through .wine. Thanks, works for me.
I guess I'll just ignore the winemp3 message as it doesn't seem to be negatively impacting anything at the moment

Noobzore

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Re: [solved]Wine font rendering + libmpg123 question

Hey, I had the same error with libmpg123 today

check this out: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/multi … 32-mpg123/

I install this package in multilib, lib32-mpg123, and it got rid of my wine error.

ciao!

workdowg

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Re: [solved]Wine font rendering + libmpg123 question

Solved my problem too! Love my Arch!!!!