Re: XDM and X not beggining

[vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta)]

> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 09:23:40 -0300
> From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <baptista@cos.ufrj.br>
> To: Cristian Prevedello <plasma@chiara.dei.unipd.it>
> Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: XDM and X not beggining
>
> 	I have the following packages installed:
>
> baptista@honolulu: /dev$ dpkg -l | grep xfont
> ii  xfonts-100dpi   3.3.3.1-3      100 dpi fonts for X
> ii  xfonts-75dpi    3.3.3.1-3      75 dpi fonts for X
> ii  xfonts-base     3.3.3.1-3      standard fonts for X
> ii  xfonts-pex      3.3.3.1-3      fonts for minimal PEX support in X
> ii  xfonts-scalable 3.3.3.1-3      scalable fonts for X
> baptista@honolulu: /dev$ dpkg -l | grep xserver
> ii  xserver-common  3.3.2.3a-11    files and utilities common to all X servers
> ii  xserver-xsun    3.3.2.3a-11    X server for 8-bit Sun framebuffers
> ii  xserver-xsun-mo 3.3.2.3a-11    X server for monochrome Sun framebuffers
> ii  xserver-xsun24  3.3.2.3a-11    X server for 24-bit Sun framebuffers
> baptista@honolulu: /dev$ 

Get the older xfonts-*_3.3.2.3a-*.deb packages from the stable tree and
install them (manually, if necessary).  The newer xfonts-*-3.3.3.1-3
packages require a utility /usr/sbin/update-fonts-alias, which is not
available for sparc yet.

--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu