Hi, >I do have the bitmap directory in /usr/share/gEDA/bitmap but >the directory does not contain any files!! Further, I noticed that when I >start up gschem I get the following message (repeated few times) in the >terminal window....
That's probably the problem. You installed gEDA/gaf via an rpm?
Curious. Simplest fix is to grab the gschem-20030223.tar.gz file and
grab the bitmaps from the bitmaps/ directory and manually copy them
into /usr/share/gEDA/bitmap
-Ales
