[Xastir] Maps ?

William McKeehan mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net
Thu Jun 24 02:52:22 EDT 2004


Thank goodness...I'm not alone.

I am also running Sarge.

> I thin'k that your xastir box is not the problem.
> I have the same problem with Debian testing (Sarge) running in a Xeon
> 2.4Ghz Server with a lot of RAM and swapp.
>
> William McKeehan dijo:
>> OK,
>>
>> I've now tried it with built-from-source ImageMagick. I tried with two
>> versions: 6.0.2-7 and 5.5.7-22 both yield the same results - no maps,
>> only a
>> black screen.
>>
>> I'm using Xastir version 1.3.3 from June 16, 2004.
>>
>> Each time, the map.gif was downloaded correctly (as I confirmed via
>> "display
>> ~/.xastir/tmp/map.gif").
>>
>> The Online/USRadar.geo does not work either - it downloads the file
>> map.png
>> (which looks OK when viewed with display), but turns my window black.
>>
>> Any other suggestions?
>>
>> The box that I am building/running this on is a small box - only has 32 MB
>> Ram. With Xastir running, free memory is down to around 3MB, but I have
>> lots
>> of swap available (100MB or so). Could this be related?
>>
>>> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>>>
>>>> What version of Xastir?  I recall that we had to make some tweaks a
>>>> while back due to changes in ImageMagick.  Latest stable is 1.3.2.
>>>> CVS is 1.3.3.
>>>>
>>>> Try one of those if you're running a slightly older version.
>>>
>>> I see that in May 2003 we had a discussion about "radar maps" and
>>> some people were seeing solid black maps as rendered by ImageMagick.
>>> The downloaded file though was ok, just like yours.  In that case it
>>> was Mandrake 9.0 and perhaps some others that had a bad ImageMagick
>>> RPM.
>>>
>>> I'd suggest trying another version of ImageMagick.
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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