[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

student4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Can you help me with the following problem? I've downloaded and
> successfully built latest version of ethereal on my red hat 9 system.
> It executed normally, but no text is visible in menus, tooltips etc.
> Absolutely no text anywhere in application!
>
> Upon execution it dumps console message:
> Xlib:  extension "RENDER" missing on display "...:0.0"
>
> What does it mean? Is the problem in my X-server (I used X-Win32 from
> StarNet Communication Corp. v5.4 running on win2000) ?

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.

You might want to ask Red Hat about that.