I hope this will help:
I used once Mandriva 2005 and had something like that. It disappeared
when I installed gtk-devel packages.
By the way which gnome do you use? If you dont have gnome... Consider an
gnome installation.
Good Luck
Caveman
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 17:47 -0500, Anders Alexandersson wrote:
> I have been using Stata 9 regularly without any problems on
> SimplyMepis 3.3, a user-friendly Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution.
> Today, I did a clean install on my personal laptop of the final
> release of SimplyMepis 3.4.3, which is the newest version of
> SimplyMepis. I then installed Stata 9 for Linux, and updated Stata.
> -verinst- shows that Stata is correctly installed and I ran a few
> commands without any problems. I allocated 100 MB of memory to Stata;
> the laptop has 1 GB of RAM. Stata is fully updated.
>
> The problem is that all the fonts in Stata look ugly when I use
> SimplyMepis 3.4.3. The fonts look great when I use another
> application, e.g., OpenOffice Writer or Firefox.
> Also, Stata often crashes with a GTK error message when I try to
> change the preferences in an attempt to fix the problem. Sometimes
> this is the error message when Stata crashes:
>
> Gdk-ERROR **: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
> serial 10595 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0
> Gdk-ERROR **: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
> serial 10596 error_code 9 request_code 62 minor_code 0
>
> Less often this is the error message:
>
> Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkfontsel.c: line 1316
> (gtk_font_selection_select_best_style): assertion `best_style != -1'
> failed.
>
> Any ideas about how to fix my ugly fonts and odd crashes in Stata 9
> under SimplyMepis 3.4.3 would be appreciated. Can someone else who
> uses Stata 9 in SimplyMepis 3.4.3 confirm or disconfirm this problem?
>
> Anders Alexandersson
> [email protected]
>
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