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Mach kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.0: Thu Feb 22 20:54:07 PST 2007; root:xnu-792.17.14~1/RELEASE_PPC
Kernel configured for up to 2 processors.
2 processors are physically available.
Processor type: ppc7450 (PowerPC 7450)
Processors active: 0 1
Primary memory available: 1.75 gigabytes
Default processor set: 102 tasks, 300 threads, 2 processors
Load average: 0.41, Mach factor: 1.58
Installed JACK and Ardour 2, started jackd, started Ardour, X11 starts, Ardour starts - but all letters are rectangles.
Output:
XFree86 Version 4.4.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
[DRI] screen 0 installation complete
Screen 0 added: 4352x1200 @ (-1280,0)
Screen 0 placed at X11 coordinate (0,0).
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list!
bash: no job control in this shell
Ardour/GTK 2.0
(built using 1745 and GCC version 4.0.0 20041026 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 4061))
Copyright © 1999-2007 Paul Davis
Some portions Copyright © Steve Harris, Ari Johnson, Brett Viren, Joel Baker
Ardour comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the source for copying conditions.
Loading ui configuration file /Volumes/usrX/audio applications/Ardour2.app/Contents/Resources/etc/ardour2/ardour2_ui.rc
Error reading Pango modules file
(ardour:19416): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically
loaded modules were found. Pango will not work correctly.
This probably means there was an error in the creation of:
‘/opt/local/etc/pango/pango.modules’
You should create this file by running pango-querymodules.
(ardour:19416): Pango-WARNING **: pango_shape called with bad font, expect ugly output
(ardour:19416): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_glyph_extents called with bad font, expect ugly output
theme_init() called from internal clearlooks engine
loading system configuration file /Volumes/usrX/audio applications/Ardour2.app/Contents/Resources/etc/ardour2/ardour_system.rc
loading user configuration file /Volumes/usrX/audio applications/Ardour2.app/Contents/Resources/etc/ardour2/ardour.rc
ardour: [INFO]: Apple VecLib H/W specific optimizations in use
ardour: [INFO]: looking for control protocols in /Volumes/usrX/zeitkind/.ardour2/surfaces/:/Volumes/usrX/audio applications/Ardour2.app/Contents/Resources/lib/surfaces/
ardour: [INFO]: Control surface protocol discovered: “Generic MIDI”
ardour: [INFO]: Control surface protocol discovered: “Mackie”
ardour: [INFO]: Control protocol Tranzport not usable
(ardour:19416): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_metrics called with bad font, expect ugly output
loading bindings from /Volumes/usrX/audio applications/Ardour2.app/Contents/Resources/etc/ardour2/ardour.bindings
(ardour:19416): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_font_map called with bad font, expect ugly output
(ardour:19416): Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_cairo_font_map_get_renderer: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT_MAP (fontmap)’ failed
(ardour:19416): Pango-WARNING **: _pango_cairo_font_install called with bad font, expect ugly output
(ardour:19416): Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_cairo_font_map_get_renderer: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT_MAP (fontmap)’ failed
Last message repeats 30x.
I checked for the missing modules:
/opt/local/etc/pango # ls -al
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 5 root admin 170 May 1 14:01 .
drwxrwxr-x 6 root admin 204 Sep 18 2006 …
-rw-r–r-- 2 root admin 2527 Sep 18 2006 pango.modules
-rw-r–r-- 2 root admin 195 Sep 18 2006 pangorc
-rw-r–r-- 2 root admin 11446 Sep 18 2006 pangox.aliases
and
pango-querymodules
Pango Modules file
Automatically generated file, do not edit
ModulesPath = /opt/local/lib/pango/1.5.0/modules
/opt/local/lib/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-arabic-fc.so ArabicScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc arabic:*
/opt/local/lib/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so BasicScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc armenian:* bopomofo:* cherokee:* coptic:* cyrillic:* deseret:* ethiopic:* georgian:* gothic:* greek:* han:* hiragana:* katakana:* latin:* ogham:* old-italic:* runic:* canadian-aboriginal:* yi:* braille:* cypriot:* limbu:* osmanya:* shavian:* linear-b:* ugaritic:* glagolitic:* cuneiform:* phoenician:* common:
[…snip…]
/opt/local/lib/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-tibetan-fc.so TibetanScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc tibetan:*
/opt/local/lib/pango/1.5.0/modules # ls
pango-arabic-fc.la pango-basic-x.la pango-hebrew-fc.la pango-khmer-fc.la pango-thai-fc.la
pango-arabic-fc.so pango-basic-x.so pango-hebrew-fc.so pango-khmer-fc.so pango-thai-fc.so
pango-basic-fc.la pango-hangul-fc.la pango-indic-fc.la pango-syriac-fc.la pango-tibetan-fc.la
pango-basic-fc.so pango-hangul-fc.so pango-indic-fc.so pango-syriac-fc.so pango-tibetan-fc.so
Now I’m a little bit lost…