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Re: Problems starting X,v.4.0.3



Lukas Ruf wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 16 May 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > Lukas Ruf wrote:
> > >
> > > The only package I found is xutils -- there, it declares that the
> > > newest version was already installed.
> > >
> > > XFS got aborted because of a missing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config file.
> > >
> > > I created this one from the example given by man xfs
> > >
> > > Still the "fixed" font cannot be found.
> >
> > It's in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, make sure you have that in the
> > catalogue of the xfs config.
> >
> in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config (where fs is linked to /etc/X11/fs), it
> reads:
> 
>   catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
>        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
>        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi

Do these directories (misc in particular) have fonts.{dir,alias} files? If
not, run mkfontdir with them as arguments. That should have been handled by
the font packages though.


> > > Do I have to set-up a symbolic link or something like that?
> >
> > If /etc/X11/fs/config exists, you could try linking to that. I suppose
> > that would be a bug in the xfs package.
> >
> I had to create the config file myself.  How can I run the official
> configure script as delivered by Debian ?  Maybe, this is the error.

No idea, the config was just there for me.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)    \   Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast   \        XFree86 and DRI project member



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