[mythtv-users] GANT theme on Fedora 7 (was Fonts not visible on Myth main menu)

[andrew allison]

On 8/5/07, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
> andrew allison writes:
>
> > On 8/5/07, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
> >> Sam Varshavchik writes:
> >>
> >> > Andy Burns writes:
> >> >
> >> >> I occasioanlly get that if I edit the theme or the myth
> >> >> x/y-offset/width/height, once the usable screen area gets too small the
> >> >> menu text is simplt not displayed, but if you know what
> >> >> up/down/enter/escape combinations to use you can still navigate tp get
> >> >> back to setup to change things back.
> >> >>
> >> >> Do you get a brief "flash" of the menu screen which then disappears?
> >> >
> >> > No, no flash. And I'm using the default theme, which worked just fine in F6.
> >>
> >> … and it looks like this is something specific to the GANT theme. The blue
> >> theme works fine. I'm still poking around but it looks like everything works
> >> in the blue theme, and the only the GANT theme that's broken.
> >>
> >> Anyone using GANT on Fedora 7?
> >>
> >>
> > I just rebuilt my mythbox using Fedora 7 and I had a few problems but
> > I currently using
> > the GANT theme fine.
> >
> > My probems were related to installng the software dependencies
> > kernel 2.6.21 has no ivtv-kmdl rpm package avaliable
> > apparently the rpm for 2.6.21 ivtv-kmdl has been deleted.
> >  I had to download the source and compile
> > (Just make sure you get the right version)
> >
> > kernel 2.6.22 has no working lirc package avaliable
> > apparently they have changed a buffer size and the PVR-150 hangs your machine
>
> Well, I'm running 2.6.22. I built the lirc modules myself. They work fine,
> at least with a PVR 350.
>
> There are glibc, qt, and xorg updates to Fedora 7. Do you have those updates
> installed? It looks like I have some kind of a problem rendering the GANT
> menu font, and just that font. Changing font sizes, in theme setup, makes no
> difference. Very weird, everything was fine in FC 6.
>
> I notice that the themes/G.A.N.T./theme.xml file has references to:
>
> <fontname>Arial</fontname>
>
> xlsfonts does not show that I have any Arial typeface. If you run xlsfonts,
> do you have "arial" fonts showing up somewhere in the list? If so, then I
> need to hunt down the correct rpm that load Arial fonts. If not, then there
> must be some aliasing in Qt of Arial font to some other font, that I need to
> track down.
>
>
I did not do any updates, since when I compiled lirc I got unresolved symbols
(lirc_registered_plugins & lirc_unregistered_plugins) Just got my box running
again and I'm afraid to make any changes :-)

here's a link to the lirc_i2c problem

http://www.nabble.com/modprobe-lirc_i2c-hangs-on-kernel-2.6.22-t4148068.html