[Xastir] maps not working after system reload.

[Curt, WE7U]

On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Chris Thompson wrote:

> well i had hoped when i worked through my Beryl issue that xastir's maps would
> have resolved themselves as before. but no such luck this time around. Beryl
> is up and working after a short edit of xorg.config but to my dismay no maps
> showing in xastir.
>
> suggestions on a good starting point would be appreciated.

Can't recall what the original problem was, sorry.  Beryl is not
familiar to me, and my short-term memory storage for any particular
mailing list is probably less than a day.

It seems that many of the user questions these days are in regards
to maps not displaying or maps not showing up in the map chooser.
Perhaps we need a map debugging section for our Wiki that will show
how to debug these sorts of problems one step at a time?

Things like:

*) How to verify that either wget or libcurl are installed/working.
*) Checking the ~/.xastir/tmp directory for downloaded maps.
*) How to find out which map libraries are compiled in.
*) Setting the timeout for internet maps.
*) Debugging GM/IM problems with displaying maps.
*) VNC colordepth problems displaying maps.
*) Transparency problems with radar maps.
*) Map levels.
*) Turning off automaps.

Just little stuff like that...  There's probably more I forgot, but
we can add them as they come up.

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