Re: Status of gpe on emdebian crush
On 2009-01-15 17:01 +0100, Martin Fuzzey wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to run gpe on emdebian crush on a ARM iMX21 based board.
> After a few minor problems due to busybox differences in some script
> files (should I file bug reports for these?)
yes please
> I have startx working.
>
> However none of the gpe stuff works. Virtually all gpe applications
> (gpe-clock, gpe-edit,...) have trouble loading PNGs :
> GPE-ERROR: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file
> '/usr/share/gpe/pixmaps/default/save_as.png'
>
> I appear to have the loader files installed:
>
> My normal next step would be to use strace,ltrace,objdump and ldd to
> try and figure out what is going on but the first three don't appear
> to be in emdebian and ldd is a shell script that requires bash (i've
> tried dash but to no avail).
>
> Are there any good reasons for not including these tools? Should I try
> to build emdebian packages locally for them?
Nope, please try building them.
> Also some gpe applications (eg gpe-edit) have pango problems:
>
> (gpe-edit:2238): Pango-CRITICAL **: No modules found:
> No builtin or dynamically loaded modules were found.
> PangoFc 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 > '/etc/pango/pango.modules'
>
> (gpe-edit:2238): Pango-WARNING **: failed to find shape engine, expect
> ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='latin'
>
>
> Indeed I have no pango.modules file (just an empty /etc/pango directory)
> I don't have pango-query modules and the libpango1.0-dev package which
> normally provides it is not installable due to an unresolved
> dependency on pkg-config:
Not sure about this but looking at the emdebian pango patches may give
a clue.
Wookey
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