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/view & suse 8.0 - bugs

 [1/6] from: nitsch-lists:netcologne at: 3-Aug-2002 15:23


Has anyone problems with suse 8.0 and /view? here when quitting /viewt sometimes crash. Ung=FCltiger Maschinenbefehl ("ilegal instruction"). its an amd k6. also font-sizes are broken, normal font is slightly to large, and except of 24 nothing gets bigger. h3 is largert, but h1, h2 smaleler than text. (checked with beta). -volker

 [2/6] from: g:santilli:tiscalinet:it at: 3-Aug-2002 17:10


Hi Volker, On Saturday, August 3, 2002, 3:23:54 PM, you wrote: VN> here when quitting /viewt sometimes crash. VN> "Ungültiger Maschinenbefehl" ("ilegal instruction"). VN> its an amd k6. There's likely to be some CMOV around (not necessarily REBOL-related), or any other instruction of that kind. You could try objdump on REBOL to see if it is in its code or not (or even try gdb and see where it breaks). If it is some external library, you could download its source and recompile it for the K6. VN> also font-sizes are broken, normal font is slightly to large, VN> and except of 24 nothing gets bigger. VN> h3 is largert, but h1, h2 smaleler than text. VN> (checked with beta). That's likely to be a XFree font configuration issue. Helvetica and Times are bitmap fonts in most linux installations; you should either change the default font View's using or try to install a scalable version of the font View uses. HTH, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r

 [3/6] from: nitsch-lists:netcologne at: 3-Aug-2002 21:40


Am Samstag, 3. August 2002 17:10 schrieb Gabriele Santilli:
> Hi Volker, > On Saturday, August 3, 2002, 3:23:54 PM, you wrote:
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> try gdb and see where it breaks). If it is some external library, > you could download its source and recompile it for the K6.
hmm, i get always a Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x081742d4 in ?? () clickig around in desktop and closing. address was 4 times the same. with "objdump -drv/rebol >t.txt" and "less t.txt" i find a fcmovnu %st(1),%st
> VN> also font-sizes are broken, normal font is slightly to large, > VN> and except of 24 nothing gets bigger.
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> either change the default font View's using or try to install a > scalable version of the font View uses.
hmm, suse 6.4 /xfree 3.6 (?) had no problems. thought something with xfree 4.2 changed. changing font is worth a try. do you know the name of View's font?
> HTH, > Gabriele.
Thanks Volker

 [4/6] from: g:santilli:tiscalinet:it at: 4-Aug-2002 1:19


Hi Volker, On Saturday, August 3, 2002, 9:40:57 PM, you wrote: VN> hmm, i get always a VN> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. VN> 0x081742d4 in ?? () VN> clickig around in desktop and closing. address was 4 times the same. VN> with "objdump -drv/rebol >t.txt" and "less t.txt" i find a VN> fcmovnu %st(1),%st I can't help more, I don't know much about x86 instructions; I just happen to have a K6-2 on the laptop and had similar problems with some RPM. That "f" makes me think of a FP instruction, while the problem I had was with integer instructions... VN> hmm, suse 6.4 /xfree 3.6 (?) had no problems. VN> thought something with xfree 4.2 changed. VN> changing font is worth a try. do you know the name of View's font? I think it is using FONT-SANS-SERIF as default (which, IIRC, is helvetica on Linux View). Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r

 [5/6] from: nitsch-lists::netcologne::de at: 4-Aug-2002 17:05


Hi Gabriele, Am Sonntag, 4. August 2002 01:19 schrieb Gabriele Santilli:
> Hi Volker, > On Saturday, August 3, 2002, 9:40:57 PM, you wrote:
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> I think it is using FONT-SANS-SERIF as default (which, IIRC, is > "helvetica" on Linux View).
Trying to change fonts was a good idea. specially with searching docs for helvetica . in /etc/X11/XF86Config had to append to the fonts-pathes FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" there was only FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" which blocks scaling. looks a bit ugly now, but proportions are right. also there is a "fetchmsttfonts" on suse, which fetches ttf-fonts from m$, but seems it misses helvetica.
> Regards, > Gabriele.
thanks for the pointer :) -Volker

 [6/6] from: g:santilli:tiscalinet:it at: 4-Aug-2002 19:47


Hi Volker, On Sunday, August 4, 2002, 5:05:28 PM, you wrote: VN> also there is a "fetchmsttfonts" on suse, which fetches ttf-fonts from m$, VN> but seems it misses helvetica. Try to change View's used font to Arial then; you'll have to search inside system/view for all occurrences of "helvetica" (but most of them are likely to be shared, and if you are lucky maybe just CHANGEing FONT-SANS-SERIF is enough). Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r

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