[plt-scheme] drscheme in Xorg-7.0?

From: Paulo J. Matos (pocmatos at gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 14 03:42:44 EST 2006

On 09/03/06, Joris Vandermeersch <jovdmeer at vub.ac.be> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been working with drscheme for a few months now, as it's used at my
> university in the Computer Science course (that's at the VUB in Belgium).
>
> Now about a week ago, I installed the modular Xorg-7.0 on my Linux system
> (that's Gentoo Linux) and now drscheme won't start anymore. It gives the
> loading screen/splashscreen, and when it's fully loaded it just quits. If
> ran from terminal it gives a segmentation fault. All of my other programs
> work fine, without any problem (I'm thinking Gimp, Firefox, Xterm itself,
> MPlayer, etc...) so I'm fairly sure it's got something to do with drscheme
> itself, failing to work with Xorg-7.0.
>
> I searched the internet for solutions but I've found not a single site
> mentioning my problem or anything related, and so I turn to you. I hope
> I've got the right mail-adress, if not, please reply with the correct
> adress.
>
> If you could help me in any way to get drscheme running (as I've got some
> projects for school - not really urgent but I still should get working on
> them) I'd be really grateful. Downgrading to Xorg-6.8 is not an option,
> and I'd rather like to see such things fixed instead of worked-around
> anyway...
>
> Thanks,
> - Joris
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Which version of DrScheme are you running? Have you downloaded the
binary or compiled from sources?

Do you have stable Gentoo GCC or unstable 4.0.2, with these info maybe
I'll be able to help you.

Cheers,

--
Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at sat inesc-id pt
Web: http://sat.inesc-id.pt/~pocm
Computer and Software Engineering
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