xawtv dependencies still broken

[Robert L Cochran]

I'd like to express support for this too since I'm currently involved in 
a project that would benefit from a working xawtv (in Fedora 11.) Too 
bad it's broken due to missing fonts.

[rlc at deafeng3 ~]$ rpm -q xawtv
xawtv-3.95-11.fc11.x86_64

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[rlc at deafeng3 ~]$ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/x86_64 (2.6.29.3-155.fc11.x86_64)
xinerama 0: 1280x800+0+0
WARNING: No DGA support available for this display.
/dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
Warning: Cannot convert string "7x13bold" to type FontStruct
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Cannot convert string 
"-*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*,           
-*-courier-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*,          
-gnu-unifont-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*,        
-efont-biwidth-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,                 
-*-*-bold-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-*-*-*,                 
-*-*-bold-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*,                         
-*-*-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*" to type FontSet
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Error: Aborting: no fontset found


Bob


On 05/23/2009 03:34 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> It was noted for fc10 that xawtv requires fonts which are (a) not 
> loaded by default, and (b) omitted from the dependencies. I note that 
> this is still the case. When it was discussed some time ago someone 
> said there was a BZ entry for it, so I didn't file one, but I can't 
> find it now.
>
> After watching me for about half an hour when I said "yum pulls in the 
> things you need," the owner of the laptop and his friends concluded 
> that Linux is just for hobby use, they will stick with Windows. The 
> limits of a 4GB thumb drive didn't leave room to download every known 
> font, and fc10 won't record from a webcam half the time even when 
> xawtv "works" as well as it can.
>
> I will look for the bug Tuesday, clearly no one is going to fix it 
> before the release, since it's gone at least six weeks without a fix now.
>