rgb.txt and apt

[Bob Frankstein <queshaw@pacbell.net>]

I fixed the font problem by removing and purging everything X and starting 
over.

Then the next problem was that it would say it couldn't find RGB_DB. I 
found that there was a link to /etc/X11/rgb.txt in 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt, but the file /etc/X11/rgb.txt doesn't exist.

So, I searched the mail archives and I find that I have the same experience 
as someone else.

I tried:

rm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt
apt-get install --reinstall xfree86-common

and it puts the link back but doesn't copy the file into /etc/X11

So, I downloaded the package, extracted the files and put rgb.txt into 
/etc/X11 manually.

Is that a bug?

Now I just have to figure out why I have a giant green rectangle on the 
screen all the time (I'm using the nvidia drivers). I had fixed that before 
by adding a vga= line to my lilo.conf file. Maybe I'll try taking the vga= 
line out...