Starting xawtv Successfully in Fedora 11

Robert L Cochran cochranb at speakeasy.net
Sat May 9 17:58:44 UTC 2009


How do I deal with this problem in Fedora 11:

$ xawtv -hwscan
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/x86_64 (2.6.29.2-126.fc11.x86_64)
looking for available devices
/dev/video0: OK                         [ -device /dev/video0 ]
     type : v4l2
     name : Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_0.3M
     flags:  capture

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$ xawtv -device /dev/video0
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/x86_64 (2.6.29.2-126.fc11.x86_64)
xinerama 0: 1600x1200+0+0
xinerama 1: 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

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


Do I need to separately install the tv-fonts mentioned here:

http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/tvfonts.html

Thanks

Bob




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