[Lcdproc] xosd driver not working

[Peter Marschall]

Hi,

On Wednesday, 18. April 2007 18:39, Robert Buchholz wrote:
> Brian Wallen schrieb:
> > I've just emerge 0.5.1-r4 in gentoo.  My real hd44780 works, but I can't
> > get xosd to work.  When I start LCDd, I get this error:
> >
> > xosd: xosd_create() failed
> > Driver [xosd] init failed, return code < 0
> > Could not load driver xosd
> > There is no output driver
> > Critical error while initializing, abort.
>
> Did you run it from a window that can access the X-Server? If not, try
> starting LCDd from an xterm. If you did, please check whether you can
> start any other X application from that terminal.
>
> Peter: Could you please add a note to the LCDd.conf that the  "font"
> argument for [xosd] like so:
> -# font to use
> +# font to use, in in XLFD format, as given by the "xfontsel"
>    application

Done ;-)

Peter

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Peter Marschall
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