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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