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[student4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hello Guy,

Wednesday, December 29, 2004, 12:55:45 AM, you wrote:

>> Upon execution it dumps console message:
>> Xlib:  extension "RENDER" missing on display "...:0.0"
> The problem is probably at least in part a problem with GTK+, the
> toolkit Ethereal's using, or perhaps even with the version of Xlib on
> your system.  Toolkits are *supposed* to use the regular drawing 
> mechanisms in X if the RENDER extension is missing, but perhaps the 
> version of GTK+ on your system isn't properly handing an X server that
> doesn't support RENDER.  They won't be able to, for example, draw 
> antialiased text if RENDER is missing, but if that's the case they 
> should just draw text without antialiasing rather than not drawing the
> text at all.

My X-server doesn't support RENDER (xpdyinfo said so) indeed.

As temprary solution I rebuilt ehtereal with gtk2 feature disabled. Looks ugly but
works!


> You might want to ask Red Hat about that.
I have no time)

Thanks for response.