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Re: Etch upgrade problem with font server



On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 10:39 -0700, Terrence Branscombe wrote:
> Yesterday, I took the leap and upgraded from Sarge to Etch by following 
> the Etch release notes as best I could.  The upgrade appeared to work 
> very well, but for some font problems.  I'm very new to debian and 
> linux, so may have made some poor decisions during the upgrade.
> 
> The xfs font server I had running in Sarge now refuses to run and the 
> log file is empty.
> 
> I made sure my "Files" list in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file matched the 
> list in the /etc/X11/fs/config file and my /etc/X11/fs/config file is 
> set to send errors to the /var/log/xfs.log file.  Beyond that I'm not 
> sure what else I can do to troubleshoot this.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated,

At this point, the font server is not needed anymore. As long as you
have fontconfig and the set of fonts by default.

dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Then restart "X", as long you have the files list in the config (which
the defaults are very good) it works.
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