Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

[L.V.Gandhi <lvgandhi@gmail.com>]

On 4/16/06, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:01:58 -0700
> L.V.Gandhi <lvgandhi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My files section as follows
> > Section "Files"
> >         FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
> >         FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
> >         FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
> >         FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
> >         FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
> >         FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
> >         FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
> >         # path to defoma fonts
> >         FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
> > EndSection
>
> Do you have these installed?
>
> $dpkg l- fontconfig* | grep ii
> ii  fontconfig        2.3.2-5.1      generic font configuration library - support binaries
> ii  fontconfig-config 2.3.2-5.1      generic font configuration library - configuration

yes. I did dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig also.
When I comment out misc line in xorg.conf, I get
could not open default font 'fixed'
when I keep misc line, I get another error.
Anyone with working x can post the fonts they have installed.
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L.V.Gandhi
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