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slyski

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From: Cheese Head Land

Registered: 2004-01-11

Posts: 60

No TV (xawtv) after Xfree86 upgrade (fixed?)

Upgraded to new xfree-4.4.0-1.

Now I can't fire up my TV card using xawtv

Terminal output is:

This is xawtv-3.91, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.3-P4v.2)
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  144 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
  Serial number of failed request:  268
  Current serial number in output stream:  268

I think it has something to do with {maybe??}  the ttf-bitstream-vera font thingy :?:  :?:

Any help is much appreciated
Thanks,
slyski

I think I fixed it.
I was reluctant to upgrade to the 2.6.5 kernel after the 2.6.4 usb hotplug errors.
But I went ahead anyway and the hotplug errors aren't there and the TV (xawtv) works OK now.
GO FIGURE 

slyski

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Xentac

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-01-17

Posts: 1,797

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Re: No TV (xawtv) after Xfree86 upgrade (fixed?)

That funky GLX error can be worked around by specifying 'xawtv -nogl'.

I'm researching more.

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slyski

Member

From: Cheese Head Land

Registered: 2004-01-11

Posts: 60

Re: No TV (xawtv) after Xfree86 upgrade (fixed?)

Thanks for the reply Xentac,

Since it started working again after the 2.6.5 upgrade I didn't check the command
line thing anymore.
Since I seen another post about this I investigated again and the error about the font
is still there:

This is xawtv-3.91, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.5-P4v.1)
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct

but at least it works now.

Thanks,
slyski

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Joey: If a cow passes away from natural causes can I eat it.
Pheobe: Not if I get there first.