Re: could not open default font
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On Fri, 6 Oct 2000 ben@babyhippo.com wrote:
> Sam,
>
> I had to do this to solve the problem:-
>
> apt-get remove xfonts-base
> dpkg --purge xfonts-base
> apt-get install xfonts-base
>
> The purging of the directory solved the problem for me as a new set of font information was installed alongside the fonts but it took a good 2 hours to work out what the problem was.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
This did indeed help, and X now loads properly (if in 640x480). Now I
just get to learn about the Monitor section, and everything will be
happy. Thanks so much for the quick response.
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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