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 -- Principal hats: Balloonz - Toby Churchill - Aleph One - Debian http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

