[Xastir] Black screen (fwd)

[Rick Green]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Curt, WE7U wrote:

>
> Any Ubuntu users that might be able to help him?  He's evidently not
> on the list.  --we7u
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:32:15 -0300
> To: xastir at xastir.org
> Subject: Black screen
>
> I just upgraded Ubuntu to 9.04 and when I load a Canada topo map I get a 
> black screen. All else seems to be OK. Where should I look.
>
> Murry   VE9MB
   1) Are you using the xastir package from the ubuntu repository, or a 
self-compiled one?  If self-compiled, from what sources?
   2) Which version of CanadaTopo are you selecting?  250k or 50k?

   My screen turned black a week or so ago (on Ubuntu 8.10), but it turned 
out to be the WMSRadar overlay, which mysteriously changed from black to 
some near-black color for the background, and the .geo file no longer 
treats it as transparent...

   Play with your map layers.  Set worldhi.map at some high layer, like 
10000.  Does it overlay your black screen?  Are stations displayed over 
the black background?  How about grids?

When I select the Canadatopo250k, I get a map image.  When I select the 
CanadaTopo50k, I get no image, so I just see the default grey background.
The .geo files for these selections don't contain a URL, so I can't check 
with a browser or wget if the server is up and functioning.  It just may 
be a problem with the 50k server, not on your end at all.

-- 
Rick Green, N8BJX

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