Re: xorg.conf variance
On 10/16/2007 03:37 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
In my xorg.conf file, the Section "files" is empty. According to
http://wiki.X.org/ under error faqs and under can't install default font
"fixed" in no case should this happen including debian. There's
supposed to be FontPath lines in that section.
No necessarily. Xorg in Lenny has the FontPaths embedded into the server.
I suppose that happens
when xfs is no longer used but can't be sure. I wish whoever does
software testing on these packages would install xorg onto a desktop
machine that never had it before and go through the steps to set
xwindows up and see if they can get it to run. Some of what me and
Florian Kulzer found out then might be a little farther up on the bug
fix radar. Florian Kulzer was able to duplicate my problem with
installing the SecurityPolicy file in /etc/X11/xserver too. the option
to force overwrites when doing a reinstall of software isn't honored by
xserver-xorg-core or xfonts-base. Florian confirmed xserver-xorg-core
for me but I found out about xfonts-base last night myself. In fact
what I suspect happened with xserver-xorg-core was that the
SecurityPolicy file failed to install on initial installation for
whatever reason. I have contacts I can ask to do some research to see
if they can replicate my results on another list and will request their
assistance later. What's needed are for users who have never installed
any part of the xorg environment on their debian boxes to use tasksel
and install the desktop environment and then try to get it working.
For what Debian distribution?
The
speakup mailing list has a few debian users who would qualify for this
kind of research but likely debian-user does not. I want to see if
others who try this run into the same difficulties I have to date and if
so, then pre-release software testing could use some improvements
somewhere along the line. I've been told by a professional sysadmin
that X is very temperamental and he had lots of problems with it over on
sgi machines too so I'm not entirely surprised these kind of failures
happen over here. However, having to write this kind of email if it
fails to produce improvements is what will preserve Microsoft's Windows
market share for many generations to come since xwindows will be in no
position to endanger that market share.
Microsoft's market share is secure for at least a generation regardless
of what happens with Xorg.
Earlier this year, I installed Etch on two different machines, and I
didn't run into the problems you describe. Are you talking about Lenny?
As you probably know, Lenny is still in testing--a kind of two-year-long
beta process; if the bugs you described are Lenny bugs, partly due to
your and Florian's efforts, the bugs will have been discovered and fixed
before Lenny is relabeled "stable."
Since I don't have a strong affinity for beta software, I use stable.
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