[ltp] xosd not showing after reinstall

[Bob Alexander]

Niels Stargardt wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:26:08 +0100
> Bob Alexander <bob@ngi.it> wrote:
> 
> 
>>After a bad crash I am slowly rebuilding my Debian sid system.
> 
> 
> I'm sorry to hear this - hope this wasn't an Debian mistake.
> 
> 
>>For reasons I do not understand the onscreen characters (e.g. the
>>blue volume bar) do not appear anymore.
>>
>>The buttons work fine even if the onscreen does not appear.
> 
> I had this problem  too, till I installed the following packages:
> 
> xfonts-100dpi-transcoded xfonts-75dpi-transcoded xfonts-base-transcoded
> 
> You only have installed the last one.
> 
> Here my installed packages:
> # dpkg -l |grep xfonts
> ii  xfonts-100dpi  4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 100 dpi fonts for X
> ii  xfonts-100dpi- 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 100 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 106
> ii  xfonts-75dpi   4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 75 dpi fonts for X
> ii  xfonts-75dpi-t 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 75 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 1064
> ii  xfonts-base    4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 standard fonts for X
> ii  xfonts-base-tr 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 standard fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10
> ii  xfonts-scalabl 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 scalable fonts for X
> 
> I think it is a mistake in the dependencies from the packages. 
> 
> Hope this solved your problem
> 
> Happy Xmas
> 	Niels

Niels,
happy XMas to you and your loved ones.

Debian's crash was a BAD XMas gist from Partition Magic :(

I have solved the osd problem ... my user was not belonging to the nvram 
group and therefore tbp did not get started hence to osd .... my fonts 
seems to be enough.

Take care,
Bob