Text display problem

[Raggedstaff]

Hi,

I am a brand new linux user, currently getting used to Dapper Drake on a Dell Inspiron 6000 (can give specs if needed). Whilst I am loving the logic of everything compared to MS I am having trouble with one issue.

In aMule and VLC all of the text is replaced with rectangles. In Windows I am pretty sure I would be able to fix it, but in linux I am utterly clueless. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is a screen capture of what I am talking about. http://www.safeselfprotection.com/images/screenshot.jpg

Many Thanks

Oz

[Rog131]

Re: Text display problem


You could try to start VLC in the konsole with verbose option:

vlc --verbose=2

Maybe it tells something useful.

More: vlc --longhelp

-H, --longhelp print help for VLC and all it's modules (can
be combined with --advanced)

-v, --verbose <integer> Verbosity (0,1,2)

[Raggedstaff]

Re: Text display problem

Hi, thanks for the suggestion.

This is what it returned.

VLC media player 0.8.4 Janus
[00000001] main vlc debug: opening config file /home/oz/.vlc/vlcrc
[00000001] main vlc debug: checking builtin modules
[00000001] main vlc debug: checking plugin modules
[00000001] main vlc debug: loading plugins cache file /home/oz/.vlc/cache/plugin
s-04041e.dat
[00000001] main vlc debug: recursively browsing `modules'
[00000001] main vlc debug: recursively browsing `/usr/lib/vlc'
[00000001] main vlc debug: recursively browsing `plugins'
[00000001] main vlc debug: module bank initialized, found 212 modules
[00000001] main vlc debug: opening config file /home/oz/.vlc/vlcrc
[00000001] main vlc debug: CPU has capabilities 486 586 MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2 FPU
[00000001] main vlc debug: looking for memcpy module: 1 candidate
[00000182] main module debug: using memcpy module "memcpy"
[00000268] main playlist debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000268] main playlist debug: thread 3082365872 (playlist) created at priority
0 (src/playlist/playlist.c:183)
[00000269] main private debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000269] main private debug: thread 3073973168 (preparser) created at priority
0 (src/playlist/playlist.c:205)
[00000270] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 1 candidate
[00000126] main module debug: using interface module "hotkeys"
[00000270] main interface debug: interface initialized
[00000270] main interface debug: thread 3065580464 (interface) created at priori
ty 0 (src/interface/interface.c:211)
[00000272] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 6 candidates
[00000173] main module debug: using interface module "screensaver"
[00000272] main interface debug: interface initialized
[00000272] main interface debug: thread 3057187760 (interface) created at priori
ty 0 (src/interface/interface.c:211)
[00000274] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 5 candidates
[00000018] main module debug: using interface module "wxwidgets"
[00000274] main interface debug: interface initialized
[00000274] main interface debug: thread 3033451440 (manager) created at priority
0 (src/interface/interface.c:196)
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
[00000274] wxwidgets interface debug: Using last windows config '(-1,0,0,1280,80
0)(0,0,0,554,84)'
[00000274] wxwidgets interface debug: id=0 p=(0,0) s=(554,84)

(.:4994): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically
loaded modules were found. Pango will not work correctly.
This probably means there was an error in the creation of:
'/etc/pango/pango.modules'
You should create this file by running pango-querymodules.

(.:4994): Pango-WARNING **: pango_shape called with bad font, expect ugly output

(.:4994): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_glyph_extents called with bad font, e
xpect ugly output

(.:4994): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_font_map called with bad font, expect
ugly output

(.:4994): Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_cairo_font_map_get_renderer: assertion `PANG
O_IS_CAIRO_FONT_MAP (fontmap)' failed

(.:4994): Pango-WARNING **: _pango_cairo_font_install called with bad font, expe
ct ugly output

(.:4994): Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_cairo_font_map_get_renderer: assertion `PANG
O_IS_CAIRO_FONT_MAP (fontmap)' failed

(.:4994): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_metrics called with bad font, expect
ugly output

(.:4994): Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_cairo_font_map_get_renderer: assertion `PANG
O_IS_CAIRO_FONT_MAP (fontmap)' failed

Of course I am still none the wiser.

Oz

[Raggedstaff]

Re: Text display problem

On checking it seems I really don't have a 'etc/pango/pango.modules' so I uninstalled and reinstalled Pango with no effect. I then tried 'update-pango-modules' and got this

Updating the modules list for Pango-1.5.0...done.
cp: cannot create regular file `/var/lib/pango/pango.modules': Permission denied

So any ideas how I get round this?

Oz

[Raggedstaff]

Re: Text display problem

I am a fool.

I tried again with sudo and reinstalled VLC and aMUle and everything is fine now.

Thanks very much

Oz