On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:12:05AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 21:41 +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > > gs opens but doesn't show anything, just a blank window. Then a > > warning pop-up window opens, but it's blank too, just the big button > > at the bottom saying 'dismiss'. I can press it and the window closes > > but nothing happens after that. Just plain blank window. > > > > Oh, that's a shame that the pop-up is blank too. It's probably trying > to transmit the error message. > > > > > > > I'm using an i386 system (Pentium-M laptop). I might have supposed it > > > was a bug in the gv libraries, except that you're using the same i386 > > > (i686) libraries. right? > > > > Yep, this is a Pentium-M laptop here too. > > > > Hmm, next question I suppose is which video card. I've got an Intel > 855GM, using the XFree86 i810 driver. But I don't really think that > will explain the difference in behaviour. >
I don't think it has something to do with the X driver. My video card is a ATI Radeon 9600 M10. I tried to view the ps file with various drivers, ati, radeon and now fglrx but no one helps. > > > > > > > The only thing I can suggest is to look deeper, at gs itself. There are > > > three versions, gs-gpl, gs-esp, gs-afpl. I'm using gs-eps by default. > > > Which one are you using? Mind you, used directly, all the gs's seem to > > > behave the same way. > > > > I just apt-got gs-esp which wasn't installed and I can see my ps files > > now. If I apt-get remove gs-esp I can't view the ps file anymore. > > > > So gs-gpl doesn't work but gs-esp+gs-gpl actually does. > > > > Should gs then depend on gs-esp too ? > > > > Not really. gs itself is not a "real" package, it's just a placeholder > for gs-gpl. You can install any (or all) of the three gs's, they're > supposed to be interchangable (aside from bugs like this one). You > choose which one is "gs" via the Debian alternatives infrastructure. gs depends on gs-gpl, on my system I wasn't able to install gs-esp without gs-gpl. Indeed, at the moment I have that config: atto:/home/eric/debian[0]# ls -l /usr/bin/gs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2005-01-24 21:40 /usr/bin/gs -> /etc/alternatives/gs atto:/home/eric/debian[0]# ls -l /etc/alternatives/gs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2005-01-24 21:40 /etc/alternatives/gs -> /usr/bin/gs-gpl atto:/home/eric/debian[0]# So I'm really using gs-gpl to view ps files. But I can't get gs-esp installed without gs-gpl: ii gs 8.01-5 Transitional package ii gs-common 0.3.6-0.1 Common files for different Ghostscript relea rc gs-esp 7.07.1-9 The Ghostscript PostScript interpreter - ESP ii gs-gpl 8.01-5 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript interpreter atto:/home/eric/debian[0]# apt-get install gs-esp Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait Construction de l'arbre des dépendances... Fait Paquets recommandés: psfontmgr Les NOUVEAUX paquets suivants seront installés: gs-esp 0 mis à jour, 1 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 20 non mis à jour. Il est nécessaire de prendre 0o/2772ko dans les archives. Après dépaquetage, 12,3Mo d'espace disque supplémentaires seront utilisés. Sélection du paquet gs-esp précédemment désélectionné. (Lecture de la base de données... 42396 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.) Dépaquetage de gs-esp (à partir de .../gs-esp_7.07.1-9_i386.deb) ... Paramétrage de gs-esp (7.07.1-9) ... [...] atto:/home/eric/debian[0]# dpkg -l |grep gs- ii gs-common 0.3.6-0.1 Common files for different Ghostscript relea ii gs-esp 7.07.1-9 The Ghostscript PostScript interpreter - ESP ii gs-gpl 8.01-5 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript interpreter atto:/home/eric/debian[0]# apt-get remove gs-gpl Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: gs gs-gpl 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 20 not upgraded. So you can't get gs without gs-gpl -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
