Re: first installation,cannot find default font

[Francisco Fialho <francisco.fialho@liveware.com.br>]

Wilfried Mestdagh wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Hum that's the second time I ask a question, and just when I see the mail
> returning to I foudn the answer. I hope you will forgive that ;-)
>
> There is a spelling error in the xf86config program. When it asking for the mouse
> it propose /dev/tty00 and it has to be /dev/ttyS0  (for com1).  Also it propose
> just /dev/mouse but that certainly dont works.
>
> I found that desktop start with startx.
>
> Also I seems to have only 16 color, but before I ask again in panic I will try a
> little more myself, please forgive me !!
>
> rgds, Wilfried
>
>  
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wilfried Mestdagh [mailto:wilfried@mestdagh.biz]
> > Sent: dinsdag 25 juni 2002 16:49
> > To: debian mailing list
> > Subject: RE: first installation,cannot find default font
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Ok I just contunied with ctrl-c and it seemd it installed the fonts...  after a
> > while I got again to fill in all video stuff, and the test seems to
> > work (except
> > Icould not move the mouse cursor).
> >
> > But when I reboot I come again in the command interpreter. How do I start up
> > Gnome Desktop ?
> >
> > thanks, Wilfried
> >
> >    
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Wilfried Mestdagh [mailto:wilfried@mestdagh.biz]
> > > Sent: dinsdag 25 juni 2002 14:06
> > > To: debian mailing list
> > > Subject: first installation,cannot find default font
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I try to install Debian on my machine. At the end I have to configure mouse,
> > > keyboard, video,..  After that is a test witch failed with the
> > >      
> > following error:
> >    
> >
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > Could not open default font 'fixed'
> > >
> > > Does this means I have to download/install fonts separately ?  The
> > >      
> > only 'font'
> >    
> >
> > > thing that I remember in the questions was if I wanted 75 or 100 dpi fonts (I
> > > selected both). Or did I do something teribely wrong ?
> > >
> > > note that this is my first experiance with linux, so please be patience ;-)
> > >
> > > rgds, Wilfried
> > >
> > >
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Hi Wilfried,

I had those problems when I first installed debian :-)
which version o Debian are you using?

what I did to correct and configure the video, mouse, etc... was:

1- I ran the installation;
2- Configured apt source.list to my Debian version ( /etc/apt/source.list)
example: if you are using woody ( change every " stable"  to woody in 
your source.list, if
you're using potato there's no need to change... and so on...:-))
3- gave the following command:  apt-get install x-window-system
4- after that I did an apt-get install xserver-xfree86
5- answered the questions and configured it! :-)

Now, in this exact moment I'm running Debian Woody - kernel 2.4.18
using KDE 2.2.x :-) Using the steps above :-)

Any doubts... post it to the list!

regards

Francisco





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