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Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg



On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:46:12AM +0200, José L. Ayala wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> Yesterday, after an upgrade of my testing system, I rebooted the machine and
> I wasn't able to log in the X environment. I cannot see my login in gdm
> because characters are displayed as "little squares"; the same happens in
> gnome. I tried to generate a new xorg.conf from an old version, and I even
> tried the gtf tool to calculate the refreshment frequencies for the monitor,
> but nothing worked. I also tried the "stable" version of xserver-xorg but,
> in that case, the X environment didn't work. For your information, my
> graphics card is an intel one.

Your problems seems to be rather font(s) related. Please post the output 
of

dpkg -l *font*


With latest xorg you should not need to write too much in xorg.conf. See 
mine (BTW, I also use intel):

,----[ /etc/X11/xorg.conf ]
| [sniped comments]
|
| Section "InputDevice"
| 	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
| 	Driver		"kbd"
| 	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
| 	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105"
| 	Option		"XkbLayout"	"ro,us,de"
| 	Option		"XkbVariant"	"comma,,"
| 	Option		"XkbOptions"	"grp:alts_toggle"
| EndSection
|
| Section "InputDevice"
| 	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
| 	Driver		"mouse"
| EndSection
|
| Section "Device"
| 	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
| EndSection
|
| Section "Monitor"
| 	Identifier	"LVDS"
|	# i think without this the dpi is set to 96 but my laptop has 85
| 	DisplaySize	305 228
| EndSection
|
| Section "Monitor"
| 	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
| 	Option		"Ignore" "true"
| EndSection
|
| Section "Screen"
| 	Identifier	"Default Screen"
| 	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
| EndSection
`----


Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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