Eagle on Linux display rendering problem

Looks like it was the display depth problem. My default color depth was

24 bit, it worked when I changed to 16 bit.

Now the question is whether eagle supports 24 bit display on Linux?

Thanks.

Chetan Bhargava

Chetan Bhargava wrote:

Hi,

 

I'm trying to install Eagle 5.1 on Ubuntu Linux 8.04. I have tried to

intall it using apt-get (from ubuntu repository) and by executing .run

file downloaded from Cadsoft. When I install / rul eagle, I get screen

like the one in the screen-shot (attached and url below)

 

http://cid-9fef434780b4a471.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!9FEF434780B4A471!138/

 

 

My laptop has ATI Rage Mobility 128 graphics and am running 1024x768

resolution.

 

What could possibly be wrong? All the other linux apps work fine.

 

Thanks,

 

Chetan Bhargava

 

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 Chetan Bhargava wrote saying :

Looks like it was the display depth problem. My default color depth was

24 bit, it worked when I changed to 16 bit.

 

Now the question is whether eagle supports 24 bit display on Linux?

 

Yes, it does. In fact I strongly suspect Eagle cares not one jot about

colour depth - it leaves all that to the Qt library which in turn leaves

it to X. I have run Eagle on Gentoo Linux at 24-bit colour for years.

Looks like you have a problem with your Ubuntu X install, or just

possibly with your hardware.

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Thanks for the info Robert. Maybe my hardware is old; it is Dell

Latitude C600. My X configuration works on 24 bit as all the apps work

except eagle.

BTW, my setup is gnome based so it does not use qt.

Thanks,

Chetan

Robert Pearce wrote:

Yes, it does. In fact I strongly suspect Eagle cares not one jot about

colour depth - it leaves all that to the Qt library which in turn leaves

it to X. I have run Eagle on Gentoo Linux at 24-bit colour for years.

 

Looks like you have a problem with your Ubuntu X install, or just

possibly with your hardware.

On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 Chetan Bhargava wrote saying :

 

BTW, my setup is gnome based so it does not use qt.

That's irrelevant. Whether you use KDE or Gnome (or icewm or xfce or

qvwm or...) as your desktop does not affect whether a given application

uses Qt or GTK. A GTK app still uses GTK on KDE, just as a Qt app still

uses Qt on Gnome. Eagle is a Qt app.

--

Rob Pearce                       http://www.bdt-home.demon.co.uk

The contents of this | Windows NT crashed.

message are purely   | I am the Blue Screen of Death.

my opinion. Don't    | No one hears your screams.

believe a word.      |

Looks like only qt related package installed is libqthreads-12

chetan@latitude:~$ dpkg -l |grep -i qt

ii  libqthreads-12                             1.6.8-6ubuntu1

                 QuickThreads library for Guile

Thanks

Chetan

Robert Pearce wrote:

On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 Chetan Bhargava wrote saying :

 

BTW, my setup is gnome based so it does not use qt.

 

That's irrelevant. Whether you use KDE or Gnome (or icewm or xfce or

qvwm or...) as your desktop does not affect whether a given application

uses Qt or GTK. A GTK app still uses GTK on KDE, just as a Qt app still

uses Qt on Gnome. Eagle is a Qt app.

Or maybe eagle is using qt libraries from its own package and not from

the OS.

In that case when qt delivers streams to X it does not interpret properly.

Thanks

Chetan Bhargava wrote:

Looks like only qt related package installed is libqthreads-12

 

 

chetan@latitude:~$ dpkg -l |grep -i qt

ii  libqthreads-12                             1.6.8-6ubuntu1

                QuickThreads library for Guile

 

Thanks

 

Chetan