Re: Can't run gnustep applications on FreeBSD 7.0

[Fred Kiefer]

Pedro Alves wrote:
> I am getting this error when I am running GNUstep application on FreeBSD
> 7.0, and Xorg 7.3. The error is recurrent since many updates of the
> system.
> GNUstep applications run, but do not present any characters in the menus
> or in the windows related to the aplications. Playing with the menus that
> are draw without text, the terminal presents the following text.
> 
> 
> 2009-01-23 21:32:13.962 Gorm[1017] X-Windows error - RenderBadPicture
> (invalid P                                 icture parameter)
>           on display: :0.0
>                 type: 0
>        serial number: 14310
>         request code: 153
> 
> 
> I hope you can figure out what is going wrong...
> I send you some information I gathered from my system, including
> xorg.conf, dmesg, pkg_info | grep xorg, grep make, grep gnustep
> 

Most likely you are having a wrong picture depth selected for your
system. I will need more information to verify this. Could you please
start up any GNUstep application with the following parameter and report
back the result? (I use Ink as the example, as it is my favourite test
application, feel free to use yours)

openapp Ink.app --GNU-Debug=back-art

For all further tests you will need to recompile the back library of
GNUstep, do you have the needed infrastructure and skill for that?

Fred