Bug 353935

Summary:	using xastir in kde4.6 screen gets torn up
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Geoff Madden <mgmadden>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Thomas Beierlein <tomjbe>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	xsession error file emerge info for xastir-2.0.0-r1

Description Geoff Madden 2011-02-07 08:05:49 UTC

I made a change to xastir-2.0.0-r2.ebuild to use ax25,and xastir appeared to build ok. But when activated it just tears up the screen horizontally and becomes unusable. I might add this only happened when I rebuilt xastir,the previous build did not suffer this malady,after the update,untill it had been running for some time, which is why the rebuild. I use a baycom style modem for accessing the local amateur traffic broadcasts,on ttyS0 & garmin gps12 xl on ttyUSB0,with a usb/serial adapter,as i only have one comport on this machine.
I have since rebuilt libax25 ax25-apps & ax25-tools all V the ebuilds,but no difference is noted. I can stop and restart Xdm and the screen behaves normally for all the rest of the kde applications.

Comment 1 Geoff Madden 2011-02-07 08:06:50 UTC

Created attachment 261693 [details]
xsession error file

Comment 2 Geoff Madden 2011-02-07 08:07:40 UTC

Created attachment 261695 [details]
emerge info for xastir-2.0.0-r1

Comment 3 Robin Johnson archtester

2011-02-07 08:10:31 UTC

Please read the product and component descriptions, ebuild bugs go into the Gentoo Linux product. "packages.gentoo.org" is ONLY for that website.

Comment 4 Thomas Beierlein gentoo-dev

2011-02-07 18:20:02 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> I made a change to xastir-2.0.0-r2.ebuild to use ax25,and xastir appeared to
> build ok. 

There is no xastir-2.0.0-r2 in the tree. If I understand you correct you changed the xastir-2.0.0-r1 ebuild to enable --with-ax25 option. That is not supported from our side.

The point is you do not need Kernel AX.25 for your setup. Just use 'net2kiss' from the ax25-tools package and convert your ax.25 interface to a kiss terminal. Afterwards connect to the corresponding pty from xastir. That is the way I am running it by myself.

But I would suggest to report your problem upstream. That is the right place. 

As the problem is not related to a Gentoo ebuild I am closing the bug as invalid. Feel free to contact me in private mail if you need help with my suggestions.