Soundmodem installation problem

Soundmodem installation problem

[vk4akm]

G'day Folks

This may seem an absolutely stupid question, but when I try to configure 
the soundmodem on my recently installed Debian system
 using the soundmodemconfig command I get an error message "Cannot load 
courier".
My understanding is that courier is something to do with mail, what has 
this to do with the soundmodem?
The configure continues and enables me to create a file, set drivers, 
channels and mode etc, but nothing seems to be created
(nothing other than eth0 and lo when I do an "ifconfig")
The soundmodemconfig internal diagnostics has "Cannot start audio IO" 
error message.

What am I missing or doing wrong

BTW I found Debian much more difficult to install than Suse or Mandrake 
but I am hoping it will support Ham stuff a little better.
          There is a distinct possibility I have missed something in the 
installation of Debian.

cheers
Ken

Re: Soundmodem installation problem

[Thomas Sailer]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 15:02 +1000, vk4akm wrote:
> G'day Folks
> 
> This may seem an absolutely stupid question, but when I try to configure 
> the soundmodem on my recently installed Debian system
>  using the soundmodemconfig command I get an error message "Cannot load 
> courier".
> My understanding is that courier is something to do with mail, what has 
> this to do with the soundmodem?

grep is your friend ;-)

GdkFont *font = gdk_font_load("-*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-m-*-*-*");
if (!font) {
        g_printerr("Cannot load courier\n");
}

It tries to load the font named courier, and fails. Courier is
supposedly available everywhere...

> The soundmodemconfig internal diagnostics has "Cannot start audio IO" 
> error message.

For some reason it cannot start get the audio driver to do what it
wants. You need to provide more info, eg. what audio driver, soundmodem
version, strace etc.

Tom