Re: X configuring
> Hello list. After years of fearfully shying away from Debian (because of all
>
> the "it's great if you are a guru" type statements), I jumped in with both
> feet and have found it the easiest distribution I have tried yet on PowerPC o
> r
> Intel. The directory structure seems much cleaner than that installed by
> LinuxPPC and a working install with more than I really need takes up far less
>
> disk space. I am incredibly happy with it.
>
> My problem: I had X working, but it was slow. So I spent a couple of days
> just hanging out in the console, as that is how I usually work anyways. Then
>
> I had a little free time, so I grabbed the latest Xpmac server from LinuxPPC
> (which worked great under LinuxPPC on my PowerBase180), and symlinked X to it
> .
> It worked the first time, then it stopped. When I startx, it grabs the
> memory it needs, then prints this error:
>
> PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
>
> And jumps back to the console. I used dselect to download the fonts which
> said were associated with PEX, but the same error comes up. I am really
> stumped on this right now. Any help would be much appreciated. I'm thinking
>
> that it may have something to do with the x font server, but I really don't
> know enough to figure it out.
I had the same error showing up all the time when I was using Xpmac,
and it's not the one killing the server. Are you sure you have all
the fonts that Xpmac requires installed: 75 dpi, 100 dpi etc.? If
not, the server will refuse to start. Good luck,
Renaud
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