(or not?) ...to get more than blank squares instead of letters rendered on the globe. This was bugging me for a long time already (several major googleearth and xorg-server versions), but it isn't exactly a life important package here. After oldschooly adding the FontPath to xorg.conf it finally worked. sci-geosciences/googleearth-6.0.2.2074 Portage 2.2.0_alpha29 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.13-r2, 2.6.38.2-ownage x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.38.2-ownage-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_L9400_@_1.86GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.2 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p8 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.0 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.38 (sys-kernel/linux-headers)
Please don't CC random developers even if they appear at the top of the ChangeLog. Use metadata.xml to find out who maintains a package.
I haven't seen your problem with googleearth at all while likewise I do not have media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera installed. So I guess your fontconfig setup is flawed. Try running `eselect fontconfig list' and then set it to some reasonable defaults.
Sorry, I picked the CC from inside the ebuild. I already took a glance at 'eselect fontconfig list' yesterday and couldn't find anything obviously wrong, frankly I never changed anything in there, but I can post it here later today when I'm back at the machine.
$ eselect fontconfig list Available fontconfig .conf files (* is enabled): [1] 10-autohint.conf [2] 10-no-sub-pixel.conf [3] 10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf [4] 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf [5] 10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf [6] 10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf [7] 10-unhinted.conf [8] 20-fix-globaladvance.conf * [9] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf [10] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf [11] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf [12] 20-unhint-small-vera.conf * [13] 25-unhint-nonlatin.conf [14] 30-metric-aliases.conf * [15] 30-urw-aliases.conf * [16] 40-nonlatin.conf * [17] 45-latin.conf * [18] 49-sansserif.conf * [19] 50-user.conf * [20] 51-local.conf * [21] 57-dejavu-sans.conf [22] 57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf [23] 57-dejavu-serif.conf [24] 60-latin.conf * [25] 60-liberation.conf [26] 65-fonts-persian.conf * [27] 65-khmer.conf [28] 65-nonlatin.conf * [29] 69-unifont.conf * [30] 70-no-bitmaps.conf [31] 70-yes-bitmaps.conf [32] 80-delicious.conf * [33] 90-synthetic.conf * This should be the untouched default config.
I have the same problems here with google earth 6 and nothing I have tried so far works. My eselect fontconfig list: Available fontconfig .conf files (* is enabled): [1] 10-autohint.conf [2] 10-no-sub-pixel.conf [3] 10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf [4] 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf [5] 10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf [6] 10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf [7] 10-unhinted.conf [8] 20-fix-globaladvance.conf * [9] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf [10] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf [11] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf [12] 20-unhint-small-vera.conf * [13] 25-unhint-nonlatin.conf [14] 30-metric-aliases.conf * [15] 30-urw-aliases.conf * [16] 40-nonlatin.conf * [17] 45-latin.conf * [18] 49-sansserif.conf * [19] 50-user.conf * [20] 51-local.conf * [21] 57-dejavu-sans.conf [22] 57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf [23] 57-dejavu-serif.conf [24] 60-latin.conf * [25] 60-liberation.conf [26] 65-culmus.conf [27] 65-fonts-persian.conf * [28] 65-khmer.conf [29] 65-nonlatin.conf * [30] 69-unifont.conf * [31] 70-no-bitmaps.conf [32] 70-yes-bitmaps.conf [33] 80-delicious.conf * [34] 90-synthetic.conf * I never changed anything at it.
I have the same problem with 5.2 and 6.0. OTOH, 5.1 seems to work fine. One thing I've noticed is that when I go to tools -> options -> 3d view -> choose 3d font I don't see any fonts being listed there (in >=5.2) or I see all installed fonts (in 5.1). Can someone who doesn't have this problem with >=5.2 check what fonts appear in that dialog?
I had the same problem, and I solved it by installing media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi . See : http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-916506.html The ebuild should be changed to ask for this package.
Created attachment 305889 [details] New ebuild for GoogleEarth Install missing fonts
I don't think that this is a proper solution for 2 reasons: 1) These fonts are bitmap fonts and look really ugly 2) They don't support non-Latin characters. As I mentioned in Comment 6, the problem seems to be that google earth can only see the bitmap fonts installed in the system.
May be it is not a perfect solution, but in the meantime I can use GoogleEarth.
is this still an issue with 7.0.2.8415-r1?
That version doesn't even start here, so I couldn't test. ;)
