Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 90921
Cannot use ledfixed font from xawtv-tv-fonts rpm package
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:53:46 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: After starting xawtv I can see such a message: This is xawtv-3.81, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.20-13.9) Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-semicondensed--39-*" to type FontStruct Since that, I can't see led font (which is very nice) switching the channel, I can see plain font instead Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xawtv-3.81-6 xawtv-tv-fonts-3.81-6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run X 2. run shell 3. type xawtv 4. type f for full screen 5. switch to another channel, channell name will be written on top left Actual Results: Channel name is written with misery font Expected Results: Channel name should be written using 80's-calculator-like led font Additional info: I've installed both rpm's: xawtv and xawtv-tv-fonts
It seems that this font can not be loaded. Does it show the same error massages, if you start xterm -fn "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-semicondensed--39-*" ?
Trying xterm error message is different, but ledfixed font still can't be used: [root@oyster root]# xterm -fn "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-semicondensed--39-*" xterm: unable to open font "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-semicondensed--39-*", trying "fixed".... [root@oyster root]# rpm -qa|grep -i xawtv xawtv-tv-fonts-3.81-6 xawtv-3.81-6 [root@oyster root]# rpm -ql xawtv-tv-fonts /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/caption.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/captioni.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/led-iso10646-1.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/led-iso8859-1.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/led-iso8859-10.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/led-iso8859-13.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/led-iso8859-14.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/led-iso8859-15.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/led-iso8859-2.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/led-iso8859-3.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/led-iso8859-4.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/led-iso8859-5.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/led-iso8859-7.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/led-iso8859-8.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/led-iso8859-9.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/led-koi8-r.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/teletext1.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/teletext1i.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/teletext2.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/teletext2i.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/teletext4.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/teletext4i.pcf.gz In ungziped led-iso8859-2.pcf file we can read: -Xxl-LedFixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--39-120-75-75-C-180-ISO8859-2
It seems a bug in xfs, assign to XFree86
I don't see how you conclude this is an xfs bug. I see it as a font misinstallation issue. The name of the font being requested is not the exact name of the font being advertised. Use xfontsel to see what fonts are actually available, and use them by the proper XLFD. Attaching a screenshot of xterm running with the LED font, using the exact commandline advertised above.
Created attachment 91985 [details] xterm screenshot using xawtv led fonts
Closing as NOTABUG
/usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts/ directory installed from rpm has wrong rights. After chmoding to 0755 and restarting xfs font is working proprerly
/usr/share/fonts/tv-fonts is not part of XFree86, and has nothing to do with XFree86 whatsoever, so I'm not sure why this is reopened against XFree86. I'm reassigning to xawtv, assuming it is a bug in xawtv.
it's fixed in xawtv-3.88-4. Thanks